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FIFTEEN   YEARS    OF    CIVIC   HISTORY 


Civic   Club   of  Allegheny   Connty 

Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania 


OCTOBER  1895 


DECEMBER  1910 


FIFTEEN   YEARS    OF    CIVIC   HISTORY 


Civic   Club   of  Allegheny   County 

Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania 


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OCTOBER  1895 


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A  FOREWORD. 

It  has  been  thought  well  to  present  to  our  mem- 
bers at  this  time  a  written  detailed  resume'  of  the  activ- 
ities of  the  Club  during  the  fifteen  years  that  have 
elapsed  since  its  organization,  not  only  as  a  matter  of 
interest,  but  as  a  permanent  record  of  our  various  lines 
of  work.  Many  of  our  members  who  do  not  actively 
participate  in  the  affairs  of  the  Club  will  doubtless  be 
surprised  at  the  work  revealed  by  this  recapitulation, 
the  briefest  enumeration  of  which  has  required  the 
printing  of  such  a  lengthy  report. 

Organized  fitfteen  years  ago  by  a  committee  from 
the  Twentieth  Century  Club,  with  the  avowed  purpose 
of  promoting  civic  and  sociologic  advancement  in  every 
possible  way,  the  Club  has  quietly  but  persistently  car- 
ried on  a  campaign  to  that  end ;  sometimes  with  greater 
aggressiveness  than  at  otjiers,  but  on  the  whole  steadily 
increasing  in  membership  and  usefulness  until,  on  its 
fifteenth  anniversary,  it  has  an  enrollment  of  seven  hun- 
dred men  and  women  and  a  well  established  place  in 
Pittsburgh's  annals  as  an  organization  that  has  been 
and  is  an  important  factor  in  all  that  pertains  to  our 
city's  proper  development. 

Our  Club  has  itself  initiated  and  promoted  a  notice- 
ably large  proportion  of  the  progressive  movements  for 
civic  betterment  that  have  reached  successful  culmina- 
tion since  its  organization,  and  has  co-operated  with 
other  associations   in  similar  efforts. 

In  its  principal  undertakings  the  Club  has  remark- 
ably few  failures  to  record.  One  of  its  chief  character- 
istics, as  well  as  one  of  the  elements  of  its  success,  has 
been  its  quiet  persistency.  Its  methods  have  never  been 
spectacular,  and  while  it  has  not  infrequently  met  with 
temporary  defeat,  it  has  kept  right  on,  with  patience 
and  dignity,  sometimes  for  years,  to  eventual  success. 
Its  primary  object  is  to  achieve  results;  and,  while  not 


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Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 


afraid  to  criticize  where  criticism  might  serve  good  pur- 
pose, its  policy  in  the  main  has.  been  to  work  with 
material  as  it  finds  it,  with  a  co-operative,  rather  than 
a  critical,  antagonistic  spirit. 

The  Board  chronicles  with  great  sorrow  the  death 
during  office  of  one  of  its  four  Presidents — Miss  Kate 
Cassatt  McKnight.  In  the  passing  away  of  this  grand 
woman,  whose  labors  in  behalf  of  her  city  and  her  fel- 
lowman  were  so  unflagging,  not  only  this  Club  but  the 
city  suffered  an   irreparable  loss. 

The  Board  desires  to  express  its  appreciation  of  and 
extend  its  thanks  to  the  various  chairmen  of  depart- 
ments and  committees  and  the  working  members  there- 
of, who  have  so  generously  contributed  their  best 
thought  and  much  personal  service  to  the  promotion  of 
the  many  laudable  undertakings  of  those  departments; 
and  it  feels  that,  while  valuing  to  the  full  the  earnest 
work  of  all,  it  may  with  propriety  single  out  for  special 
mention  that  of  the  Soho  Baths  Committee,  whose 
labors,  extending  through  a  period  of  years,  have  been 
so  arduous  and  so  signally  successful. 

The  Board  gratefully  acknowledges  the  indebted- 
ness of  the  Club  to  Mrs.  William  Thaw,  Jr.,  by  whose 
generosity  Pittsburgh,  through  our  Club,  was  given  its 
first  public  bath  house — our  fine  structure  on  Penn  Ave- 
nuej  known  as  the  Peoples  Baths. 

The  Board  also  feels  that  the  Club  has  been 
especially  fortunate  in  having  for  its  Secretary  one  so 
capable,  untiring  and  devoted  as  Miss  Helena  Marie 
Dermitt ;  who  has  given  herself  so  unreservedly  to  ad- 
vancing the  interests  of  the  Club,  largely  increasing  her 
regular,  constant  and  all-absorbing  duties  by  the  prep- 
aration of  this  report  which  has  involved  a  vast  amount 
of  labor;  for  all  of  which  the  Board  here  records  its 
sincere  appreciation. 

By  the  Board. 


OFFICERS  AND   DIRECTORS 

of  the 

CIVIC  CLUB  OF  ALLEGHENY   COUNTY 

1910—1911. 


President 
HON.   WILLIAM   M.   KENNEDY 

1st  Vice  President 
MRS.  FRANKLIN  P.  lAMS 

2nd  Vice  President 
MR.  OLIVER  McCLINTOCK 

3rd  Vice  President 
MR.  CORNELIUS  D.  SCULLY 

4th  Vice  President. 
MR.  ROBERT  C.  HALL 

Treasurer 
MRS.  WILLIAM  THAW,  JR. 

Secretary- 
Miss  H.  M.  DBRMITT 

Directors 
MR.  HAROLD  ALLEN 
MRS.  CLIFFORD  D.  CLANEY 
DR.  THOMAS  W.  GRAYSON 
MISS  HELEN  GRIMES 
MR.  CHARLES  W.  HOUSTON 
MR.  FREDERICK  G.  KAY 
MR.  THOMAS  J.  KEENAN 
MRS.  W.  M.  LEATHERMAN 
MRS.  ALFRED  LONGMORE 
MRS.  WILLIAM  MACRUM 
MISS  EMILIE  McCREERY 
DR.  S.  B.  McCORMICK 
MRS.  ENOCH  RAUH 
MR.  WILLIAM  A.  ROBERTS 
MRS.   WILLIAM    H.   STEVENSON 
MRS.  GILLIFORD  B.  SWEENY 
MR.   FREDERICK  S.  WEBSTER 
MRS.  WILLIAM  T.  WHITMAN 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 


NOTEi:  In   order   to   follow  without   interruption 

the  individual  movements  undertaken  by 
the  Civic  Club,  they  are  headed  under  the  year  the 
work  was  initiated  and  carried  through  to  completion. 
The  continuous  activity  of  the  Club  cannot  be  judged 
by  the  number  or  kinds  of  new  work  begun  each  year  for 
the  prolongation  of  such  efforts,  since  Pure  Water, 
Smoke,  Associated  Charities,  Anti-Expectoration,  Tene- 
ment House,  Child  Labor,  The  Allegheny  County  In- 
dustrial and  Training  School  and  many  others,  carried 
a  vast  amount  of  labor  into  the  years  following  their 
initiation:  an  inheritance  that  affected  certain  years 
more  than  others. 


Civic  Club  op  Allegheny  County 


ORGANIZATION  The  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny 
1895  County  was  organized  October  8, 

1895,  as  the  result  of  a  meeting 
called  June  4,  1895,  by  a  special  committee  of  the  Twen- 
tieth Century  Club,  composed  of  Miss  Kate  C.  Mc- 
Knight,  Miss  Julia  M.  Harding,  Mrs.  Imogen  B.  Oak- 
ley, Mrs.  F.  F.  Nicola  and  Mrs.  John  B.  Herron,  Jr. 

It  was  originally  planned  to  incorporate  a  Depart- 
ment of  Civics  in  the  general  program  of  the  Century 
Club  work,  but  as  the  title  suggests  better  municipal 
government,  improved  social  conditions,  increased  edu- 
cational opportunities  and  a  more  beautiful  city  in 
which  to  live,  so  the  object  involved  the  co-operation  of 
the  busy  businessman  in  order  to  study  in  detail  any 
one  of  these  civic  problems. 

To  quote  the  Pittsburgh  "Post"  of  October  9,  1895, 
"The  credit  of  starting  this  movement  belongs  to  the 
Twentieth  Century  Club.  At  the  initiation  of  this  or- 
ganization of  women,  a  large  assemblage  of  citizens 
gathered  last  evening  in  the  rooms  of  the  Club,  408 
Penn  Avenue.  Preachers,  lawyers,  doctors  and  business 
men  were  there  accompanied  by  their  wives,  who  took 
as  much  interest  in  the  movement  as  the  men." 

The  Woman's  Health  Protective  Association,  a 
small  society  of  women,  which  had  already  done  much 
good  in  its  short  period  of  existence,  was  quickly 
merged  with  the  new  movement.  From  the  first  the 
organization,  which  was  founded  on  broad  lines,  seemed 
to  appeal  to  the  sound  judgment  and  good  will  of  men 
and  women  alike,  and  resulted  in  the  formation  of  this 
independent  agency  that  has  had  to  meet  unexpected 
demands  and  new  opportunities  with  efficiency  and 
foresight  in  order  that  the  work  of  to-day  may  not  have 
to  be  undone  to-morrow. 

The  purpose  of  The  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 
has  been  verified  by  a  few  of  the  things  it  accomplished 
in  its  first  fifteen  years. 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 


It  initiated; 


THE      PLAYGRIOUND       MOVEMENT      IN 
PITTSBURGH  AND  ALLEGHENY. 

THE  WORK  OF  THE  LEGAL  AID  SOCIETY 
OE  PITTSBURGH. 

THE  PUBLIC  OBSERVANCE     OF     ARBOR 
DAY. 

THE    FREE     MEDICAL     INSPECTION     IN 
PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 


It  conducted: 

The  public  campaign  for  PURE  WATER. 

A  vigorous  campaign  for  SMOKE  PREVEN- 
TION. 

It  secured  by  municipal  legislation: 

THE  MUNICIPAL  HOSPITAL  (erected  above 
••  Grant  Boulevard). 

THE  FIRST  TUBERCULOSIS  PAVILION 
(erected  at  Marshalsea). 

THE  TREE  COMMISSION  OF  PITTS- 
BURGH. 

It  drafted  and  is  responsible  for: 

THE  TENEMENT  HOUSE  LAWS  governing 
cities  of  the  second  class  in  PENNSYL- 
VANIA. 

THE  ANTI-EXPECTORATION  ORDI- 
NANCES forbidding  expectoration  on  the 
streets,  in  street  cars  and  public  places. 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 


The  law  providing  the  ALLEGHENY  COUNTY 
INDUSTRIAL  AND  TRAINING  SCHOOL 
FOR  BOYS  (located  at  Thorn  Hill,  Mar- 
shall Township,  on  the  Butler,  Harmony  & 
New  Castle  R.  R.) 


It  organized : 

THE  ASSOCIATED  CHARITIES  OE  PITTS- 
BURGH. 

THE  CHILD  LABOR  ASSOCIATION  OF 
ALLEGHENY  COUNTY. 

THE  JUVENILE  COURT  OF  ALLEGHENY 
COUNTY,  in  conjunction  with  the  Perma- 
nent Civic  Committee  of  Women's  Clubs. 


It  owns  and  operates  two  public  bath  houses : 

THE  PEOPLE'S  BATHS,  valued  at.$  71,000.00 

THE  SOHO  BATHS,  valued  at 120,000.00 

These  and  many  other  progressive  and  preventive 
measures  have  been  advanced  by  the  Civic  Club.  Their 
accomplishment  has  been  obtained  by  a  devotion  to 
the  public  welfare  through  an  active  and  generous  ser- 
vice-giving membership  in  whose  faithful  personal  per- 
formance of  the  duties  involved  is  found  the  answer  to 
the  Club's  right  to  exist  and  to  demand  the  earnest  con- 
sideration of  the  citizens  of  Pittsburgh. 


PRESIDENTS     The   first  officers    of    the    Club    were 

appointed  on  the  date  of  the  meeting 

called  to  organize,  to  serve  six  months.     Professor  John 

A.   Brashear  acted  as   Chairman   for  this  period.    Hon. 


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Henry  Kirke  Porter  was  the  first  President  and  served 
from  May,  1897  to  December,  1899;  Hon.  William  M. 
Kennedy,  the  second  President,  from  December,  1899,  to 
December,  1900;  Mr.  Edwin  Z.  Smith,  the  third  Presi- 
dent, from  December,  1900,  to  November,  1902 ;  Miss 
Kate  Cassatt  McKnight,  the  fourth  President,  from  No- 
vember, 1902,  until  her  death,  August,  1907.  Hon. 
William  M.  Kennedy,  the  first  Vice  President  at  the 
time  of  Miss  McKnight's  death,  served  as  acting  Presi- 
dent until  the  Annual  Meeting  in  November,  1907,  wh  n 
he  was  elected  fifth  President  of  the  Civic  Club.  Mr. 
Kennedy  has  been  one  of  the  officers  or  a  director  on 
the  Board  since  the  Civic  Club's  inception.  That  his 
loyalty  to  its  work  and  aims  has  been  unceasing 
through  fifteen  years  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  on 
its  anniversary  in  1910,  he  was  re-elected  for  the  fifth 
time  to  serve  as  its  President. 


TREASURERS  The  office  of  Treasurer  has  been 
filled  by  five  successive  incumbents. 
Mr.  John  B.  Jackson  was  appointed  at  the  first  meeting 
and  served  until  May,  1897.  From  this  date  Mr.  James 
R.  Mellon  served  to  October,  1898;  Mr.  T.  H.  B.  Mc- 
Knight from  October,  1898,  to  October,  1902;  Mrs.  Lil- 
lian Marshal  Brown  from  October,  1902,  to  February, 
1903.  Mrs.  William  Thaw,  Jr.,  was  elected  February, 
1903,  and  with  her  re-election  in  1910  for  the  eighth  time 
continues  faithfully  to  serve  the  Civic  Club  in  this  ex- 
acting and  responsible  capacity  as  its  fifth  treasurer. 


SECRETARIES     The    office    of    Secretary    has    exper- 
ienced a  greater  number  of  changes. 
During  several  periods  an  officer  pro  tem  filled  the  gap 
between  definite  appointments.     Mrs.  Mary  Biddle  An- 


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derson,  Secretary  of  the  Educational  Department,  dur- 
ing an  exceptionally  busy  period  rendered  valuable  ser- 
vice in  the  first  years  of  the  Club's  work.  Mr.  James  O. 
Handy  was  the  Club's  first  Secretary,  followed  by  Mrs. 
Imogene  B.  Oakley,  Mr.  Curtis  G.  Hussey,  Mrs.  Susan 
Elwing  Hays,  Mrs.  Herbert  L.  Stitt,  Miss  Mary  Y. 
Wheeler,  Mrs.  Dallas  Albert,  Miss  Hannah  Patterson 
and  Miss  Helena  Marie  Dermitt. 


DEPARTMENT  OF     The  Chairmen  of     the     Depart- 
GOVERNMENT  ments  of  Government  have  been 

Mr.  E.  Z.  Smith,  who  served 
until  1898;  Mr.  Edwin  L.  Mattern,  from  1899  to  1902; 
Mr.  Charles  B.  Price,  from  1902  to  1908.  From  this 
date  the  President  has  made  the  appointment  of  com- 
mittees under  this  department. 


EDUCATIONAL  The  Educational  Department  has 
DEPARTMENT  been  most  ably  conducted  by  Mrs. 
David  Kirk  from  October,  1895  to 
June,  1896 ;  Miss  Beulah  Kennard  from  1896  to  Novem- 
ber, 1901.  Following  this  date  Mrs.  George  H.  Wilson, 
Mrs.  J.  J.  Covert  and  Miss  Nannie  Mackrell  filled  the 
office  consecutively  until  Mrs.  William  Macrum  took 
the  chair  in  November,  1905.  In  January,  1907,  owing 
to  ill  health,  Mrs.  Macrum  resigned  the  ofifice  to  Mrs. 
James  L.  Francis,  w'ho  in  turn  directed  the  work  of  the 
department  until  January,  1909,  when  with  her  change 
of  residence,  Mrs.  Macrum  again  resumed  the  ofifice, 
and  is  at  present  its  very  efficient  Chairman.  By  her 
good  judgment,  firmness  and  capable  management  Mrs. 
Macrum  has  rendered  invaluable  service  through  this 
Department. 


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SOCIAL  SCIENCE     The    Social    Science    Department 
DEPARTMENT  has  been  equally  fortunate  in  its 

quota  of  Chairman.  Dr.  Frank 
LeMoyne  was  appointed  with  the  organization  of  the 
Civic  Club,  and  served  until  January,  1898.  Mr.  Robert  D. 
McGonnigle,  Mrs.  F.  F.  Nicola  and  Miss  Mary  Lippin- 
cott  presided  in  turn  until  1903,  when  Mrs.  Franklin  P. 
lams  was  appointed.  Not  only  has  Mrs.  lams  been  a 
directing  executive  in  this  department  but  as  Chairman 
of  the  Legislative  Committee  has  assisted  every  other 
department  with  its  laws  and  ordinances.  She  has 
largely  anticipated  and  actively  followed  the  work  of 
every  committee  in  the  Club  as  its  First  Vice  President 
for  the  same  number  of  years,  and  not  only  has  given 
more  liberally  of  her  time  and  strength  than  the  law 
allows,  but  has  given  to  the  city  the  benefit  of  her 
study  and  careful  observation  of  existing  conditions. 
Through  countless  interviews,  intercessions  and  some 
interferences,  where  it  has  been  necessary,  she  has  been 
a  potent  factor  in  all  movements  that  look  toward  the 
betterment  of  the  city. 


DEPARTMENT     The  Department  of  Art     has     been 
OF  ART  served  by  four  Chairmen ;  Mr.  Frank 

S.   Bissell,   Mrs.  William  Thaw,  Jr., 
Miss  Ida  Smith  and  Mr.  John  W.  Beatty. 


PURE  WATER     The   opening  year,    in   fact   the   first 
1895  meeting  of   the    Civic     Club,     held 

October,  1895,  was  auspicious 
through  its  presentation  to  the  public  of  the  necessity 
of  a  pure  water  supply  for  Pittsburgh.  In  1893  several 
organizations  had  held  a  meeting  for  this  purpose,  but 
nothing  more  had  been  done  until  the  Citizens  League 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  13 

of  the  Unitarian  Church  made  a  bacteriological  test 
and  public  illustration  of  the  possibility  of  sand  filtra- 
tion. Mr.  James  O.  Handy,  a  member  of  the  League 
and  Recording  Secretary  of  the  Civic  Club  at  that  time, 
was  a  leader  in  the  movement,  and  following  the  erec- 
tion of  a  sand  filter  on  the  church  property  in  Septem- 
ber, 1895,  directed  the  Civic  Club  Board  in  an  active 
campaign  to  bring  the  matter  before  the  public.  The 
October  meeting  was  followed  by  a  mass  meeting  in 
December  of  the  same  year  and  others  in  February  and 
June  of  1896,  when  various  speakers  described  methods 
followed  in  other  countries.  Nothing  of  moment  was 
done  from  this  time  until  December,  1903,  when  the 
Butler  epidemic  prompted  the  Civic  Club  to  petition 
Mayor  Hays  and  the  Councils  to  take  more  speedy 
remedial  measures  for  furnishing  a  purer  supply  of 
water. 

From  this  time,  in  each  year  through  to  1906,  public 
attention  was  called  to  this  supremely  important  mat- 
ter. Petitions  were  sent  to  the  medical  societies  and 
chemists,  to  Director  Ridgeway  and  the  Board  of 
Health,  urging  them  to  take  steps  toward  having  the 
traction  companies  post  signs  in  their  cars  to  "boil  the 
drinking  water".  These  signs  were  also  put  on  hy- 
drants and  in  conspicuous  places.  The  Civic  Club  may 
fairly  claim  a  large  share  of  the  success  of  this  move- 
ment, which  was  taken  up  and  ably  forwarded  by  others. 
Following  the  appointment  of  a  Water  Filtration  Com- 
mission and  the  appropriation  of  over  four  million  dol- 
lars, the  crystallization  of  the  agitation  came  in  the 
building  of  the  Filtration  Plant  at  Aspinwall. 


GARBAGE     The   passage   of  ordinances   in   Pittsburgh 

1895  and   Allegheny,     January  and     February, 

1895,  regulating  the  disposal  of  garbage, 

was  due  to  the  efforts  of  the  Woman's  Health  Protec- 


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tive  Association.  Immediately  upon  its  assimilation 
with  the  Civic  Club  its  endeavors  were  continued  in  the 
Social  Science  Department. 

The  desirability  of  placing  cans  or  boxes  in  public 
places  for  the  receipt  of  waste  paper  and  the  like  was 
advocated  and  in  1896  and  1897  a  number  of  cans  were 
purchased  and  placed  in  the  streets  where  the  public 
and  the  school  children  could  assist  in  keeping  the 
streets  clean. 

The  granting  of  the  provision  empowering  the 
city  to  remove  and  dispose  of  the  garbage  was  followed 
by  a  serious  consideration  of  the  city's  facilities  to  per- 
form the  obligation  imposed  upon  the  Bureau  of  Health. 
The  Civic  Club's  agitation  of  this  question  directly  re- 
sulted in  the  passage  of  ordinances  in  both  cities  grant- 
ing the  contract  for  the  regular  collection  of  such  waste, 
to  private  companies. 

It  was  not  intended  at  the  time  that  this  arrange- 
ment should  be  permanent,  as  even  then  it  was  deemed 
extravagant.  The  passage  of  the  yearly  contract  ordi- 
nance, however,  has  held  in  abeyance  the  object  sought 
in  that  time,  viz. :  the  scientific  and  up-to-date  method 
adopted  in  other  cities  through  a  municipal  incineration 
plant.  In  1908  the  Civic  Club  heartily  endorsed  Dr. 
Edward's  plans  and  recommendations  for  the  removal 
and  disposal  of  waste  by  the  municipality.  It  earnestly 
hopes  the  necessary  money  may  soon  be  available  for 
the  building  of  an  incineration  plant  in  accordance  with 
the  plans  as  authorized  by  the  bond  issue. 


PLAYGROUNDS     With  the  belief  that     one     of     the 
1896  greatest  responsibilities  of  this  gen- 

eration is  the  laying  of  the  founda- 
tion for  future  citizenship,  comes  the  realization  ithat  to 
be  a  good  citizen  the  child  must  learn  to  respect  author- 
ity, to  recognize  the  rights  of  others,  and  to  observe  the 


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principle  of  "playing  fair"  in  matters  of  mutual  depen- 
dence. Where  are  children  to  learn  these  principles  of 
life  if  they  do  not  start  in  the  playground? 

In  1896  the  Civic  Club  came  face  to  face  with  the 
fact  that  the  streets  of  Pittsburgh  afforded  the  only 
playground  the  children  knew  (especially  in  the  crowded 
districts),  and  it  resulted  in  the  most  important  work 
undertaken  by  the  Club  during  its  initial  year,  the  first 
step  in  what  to-day  is  the  largest  and  most  far-reaching 
social  influence  in  Greater  Pittsburgh,  namely,  the 
opening  of  the  first  summer  playgrounds  in  July  6,  1896, 
in  the  Forbes  School  under  the  Department  of  Educa- 
tion, Mrs.  David  Kirk,  chairman,  with  Miss  Beulah 
Kennard,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  in  charge.  The 
cost  of  this  first  year's  work  was  $125.00.  In  1897  four 
school-yard  playgrounds  were  conducted — the  Forbes 
and  Ralston  in  Pittsburgh  and  the  5th  and  9th  Wards 
in  Allegheny,  at  a  cost  of  $603.72.  In  1898  there  were 
seven  school-yard  playgrounds — Soho,  Birmingham, 
O'Hara,  High  School,  and  the  1st,  3d,  and  9th  Wards  in 
Allegheny,  at  a  cost  of  $901.50.  In  1899  there  were 
nine  school-yard  playgjrounds  in  Pittsburgh — the 
O'Hara,  Ralston,  Grant,  Lincoln,  Central  High  School, 
Birmingham,  Monongahela,  Morse  and  Humboldt,  with 
one  vacation  school  in  the  Franklin  building,  and  three 
school-yard  playgrounds  in  Allegheny — the  3d,  5th,  and 
9th  Wards.  For  the  first  three  years  this  work  was 
supported  entirely  by  the  Civic  Club  through  contribu- 
tions of  its  members  and  interested  friends;  for  the 
fourth  year,  of  the  total  expense  of  $1,982.42— -$1,421.40 
was  appropriated  by  the  Central  Board  of  Education  of 
Pittsburgh  for  the  work  in  the  Pittsburgh  district.  The 
balance,  or  $561.05,  was  paid  out  of  the  Civic  Club  treas- 
ury for  the  Allegheny  Playgrounds. 

The  Civic  Club  having  proved  the  summer  schools 
a  success  and  believing  the  time  had  come  when  they 
should  be  supported  by  city  appropriation  and  become 
a  permanent  institution,  directed  the  committee  to  take 


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steps  toward  more  extended  plans.  In  1900  a  joint  com- 
mittee of  women's  clubs  of  Pittsburgh  was  asked  to  co- 
operate with  it,  and  they  took  up  the  work  most  en- 
thusiastically, secured  city  appropriation  and  later  be- 
came two  separate  organizations.  The  Allegheny  divi- 
sion, under  its  capable  President,  Mrs.  John  W.  Cow- 
ley, has  become  a  success  far  beyond  the  dreams  of  the 
first  committee.  The  Pittsburgh  division  remains  under 
the  continued  leadership  of  Miss  Kennard,  the  President, 
who,  from  the  beginning  of  the  movement  in  the  Civic 
Club  on  through  to  this  date  has,  by  her  keen  sympathy 
for  the  social  needs  of  the  city,  her  personal  service  and 
untiring  efforts,  contributed  most  generously  to  the  won- 
derful success  of  the  playground  movement  in  Pitts- 
burgh. 


EXPECTORATION     In  this  same     year,     1896,     the 
1896  campaign    against    expectoration 

in  the  street  cars  was  instituted. 
Through  continued  and  eventually  successful  efforts, 
the  committee  induced  the  traction  companies  to  put 
signs  in  their  cars.  As  a  result  of  petitions  signed  and 
presented  to  the  councils  of  both  cities  asking  for  an 
ordinance  forbidding  expectoration  in  public  places, 
ordinances  were  passed  in  1896  in  both  Pittsburgh  and 
Allegheny  forbidding  expectoration  in  street  cars.  This 
law  which  has  been  enforced  with  varying  degrees  of 
success  was  good  as  far  as  it  went,  and  was  especially 
valuable  as  an  educative  measure,  helping  to  prepare  the 
public  for  a  much  more  rigid  one.  Several  ordinances 
were  presented  and  lost,  but  finally  in  July,  1906,  one 
prepared  and  presented  by  the  Social  Science  Depart- 
ment of  the  Civic  Club  passed  the  city  councils  and  is 
now  a  law.  A  grateful  acknowledgement  is  hereby  ex- 
tended to  Dr.  E.  R.  Walters  through  whom  the  ordi- 
nance was  introduced  and  passed. 


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While  the  Committee,  under  the  Chairmanship  of 
Mrs.  W.  W.  Wishart,  was  painfully  working  this  ordi- 
nance through  the  city  legislative  bodies,  it  was  at  the 
same  time  making  efforts  with  the  State  legislature  for 
the  passage  of  a  State  law  regulating  this  offensive  and 
dangerous  habit,  and  twice  presented  bills  to  that  body; 
one  in  1903,  which  was  passed,  but  vetoed  by  Governor 
Pennypacker,  on  the  ground  that  it  gave  too  much  power 
to  conductors ;  and  another  in  1905,  which  had  to  be  re- 
vised so  many  times,  to  meet  objections  of  various 
members,  that  the  legislature  finally  adjourned  before 
its  passage  was  secured. 

In  1907  the  legislative  committee  used  its  influence 
for  the  passage  of  a  comprehensive  bill  which  became  a 
law  that  year,  which  covers  not  only  cities  but  boroughs, 
townships  and  all  public  conveyances,  including  railroad 
cars,  etc. 

The  ordinance  now  in  force  in  this  city  forbids  ex- 
pectoration not  only  on  the  floors  of  public  buildings 
and  conveyances,  but  also  on  the  sidewalks,  and  gives 
the  police  power  to  arrest  all  offenders,  who  are  subject 
to  fine  and  imprisonment.  It  also  provides  that  the  city 
shall  keep  at  all  times  posted  notices  on  the  streets  for- 
bidding the  vile  practice,  and  that  all  owners  of  public 
buildings  and  public  vehicles  shall  at  all  times  keep  such 
notices  conspicuously  posted,  failure  to  do  which  sub- 
jects them  to  fine.  The  Bureau  of  Health  is  charged 
with  the  enforcement  of  this  law,  the  appropriation  for 
the  little  blue  and  white  street  signs  (which  are  monu- 
ments to  the  persistence  of  the  Civic  Club)  being  in- 
cluded in  its  budget.  The  street  car  company  after 
sufficient  pressure  changed  the  paste-board  signs  which 
frequently  slipped  out  of  place,  to  metal  ones.  While 
the  conditions  have  greatly  improved,  the  education  of 
the  careless  has  been  slow  and  up  to  this  date  the  Civic 
Club  calls  the  attention  of  the  Department  and  street 
car  company  to  the  continued  violations.  The  officers 
of  both  being  apparently  anxious  to  enforce  the  law,  but 


18  Civic  Club  gf  Allegheny  County 

the  police  and  conductors  do  not  faithfully  carry  out  the 
provisions  as  instructed. 


MUNICIPAL  The  crying  necessity  for  a  municipal 
HOSPITAL  isolation  hospital  for  contagious  dis- 
1896  eases    was    another    subject    which,   be- 

ginning with  the  year  1896,  engaged 
the  interest  of  the  Social  Science  Department  under  Dr. 
Frank  LeMoyne,  and  in  conjunction  with  the  local  med- 
ical societies,  the  matter  was  thoroughly  canvassed  and 
earnestly  pressed  upon  the  attention  of  the  municipal 
authorities.  An  appropriation  through  a  bond  issue 
was  secured,  and  the  experimental  plans  prepared  by 
Dr.  Thos.  Turnbull  of  this  Department  were  used  as 
the  starting  point  in  carrying  out  this  plan,  and  the 
Municipal  Hospital  above  the  Grant  Boulevard  is  the 
visible  result. 


PEOPLES  One  of  the  most  interesting  experiments 
GARDENS  tried  in  1896  was  what  was  known  then 
1896  as  the  "Pingree  potato  patch  idea",  with 

Mr.  Frank  S.  Bissell  as  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  in  charge.  Quite  a  sum  of  money  was  raised, 
40  acres  of  land  were  secured  and  put  into  120  garden 
plots  throughout  the  city,  to  be  cultivated  by  poor  fam- 
ilies under  expert  supervision.  Owing  to  an  unusually 
wet  and  rainy  summer,  this  experiment  did  not  prove 
entirely  successful,  as  many  of  the  vegetables  planted, 
rotted  in  the  ground,  so  it  was  not  tried  the  second 
year. 


I   UNIV.rRSiTY  jj 

Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  19 

MISCELLANEOUS     During  the  year  1896,  the  Club 
ACTIVITIES  vigorously    agitated     the     ques- 

1896  tion   of   securing  women     school 

directors,  of  procuring  legisla- 
tion to  compel  the  provision  of  seats  in  stores  where 
women  and  girls  are  employed ;  of  introducing  the  sub- 
ject of  cheaper  street  car  service  and  of  protesting 
against  the  indecently  overcrowded  and  unsanitary 
cars. 


PEOPLES  BATHS     When  the  Civic  Club  was  organ- 
1897  ized,    among    the    committees  ap- 

pointed in  the  Social  Science  De- 
partment was  one  on  Public  Baths  with  Dr.  Thomas 
Turnbull,  a  most  untiring  and  efificient  Chairman,  and 
Mrs.  F.  F.  Nicola,  a  no  less  active  Secretary;  the  object 
being  to  secure  the  establishment  of  a  system  of  public 
baths  throughout  the  city.  Letters  were  sent  to  all  the 
public  baths  of  Europe  and  to  those  in  this  country 
(though  at  that  time  there  were  not  many  in  the  U.  S.) 
regarding  cost  and  maintenance.  The  committee  decid- 
ed it  would  take  at  least  $20,000  to  start  such  an  enter- 
prise. The  question  of  raising  the  money  was  a  serious 
one,  and  many  plans  were  tried,  but  it  was  found  im- 
possible at  that  time.  Miss  Matilda  Denny  was  willing 
that  a  piece  of  property,  known  as  Snyders  Square,  which 
had  been  given  by  her  mother  to  the  city  for  -a  public 
park  might  be  used,  but  the  city  was  not  willing  to  give 
it  up.  The  Adams  Market  was  next  thought  of,  but  all 
the  heirs  could  not  be  found,  and  just  at  a  time  when 
the  Club  was  in  despair  a  generous  of^er  was  made  by 
one  of  its  members,  Mrs.  William  Thaw,  Jr.,  to  erect 
and  equip  a  Peoples  Bath,  as  a  memorial  to  her  hus- 
band William  Thaw,  Jr.  Early  in  June  1897  the  work 
was  started  and  on  Thanksgiving  Day  of  that  year  the 
first  public   bath    in    Pittsburgh   was   presented   to   the 


20  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Civic  Club  for  operation  and  maintenance.  The  build- 
ing was  located  at  the  corner  of  Sixteenth  Street  and 
Penn  Avenue  and  contained  thirty-two  shower  baths 
and  two  tubs;  the  compartments  being  all  marble  with 
cement  floors.  The  second  story  had  five  rooms  for  the 
use  of  the  superintendent.  A  charge  of  five  cents  was 
made  for  a  bath,  each  bather  being  given  soap  and  a 
towel,  and  one  day  each  week  was  set  apart  for  women 
and  children. 

The  first  year  the  income  was  just  sufficient  to  pay 
operating  expenses,  and  a  few  years  later  increased  to 
such  proportions  as  to  warrant  a  small  addition  to  the 
building. 

In  1907  the  U.  S.  government  purchased  the  prop- 
erty for  $70,000;  the  site  to  be  used  for  a  post  office. 
A  location  at  19th  Street  and  Penn  Avenue  was  then 
purchased  and  under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  Thaw  a  new 
and  more  modern  bath  house  was  erected.  This  build- 
ing will  serve  the  public  even  more  satisfactorily  than 
the  old  institution,  as  there  is  a  separate  floor  to  be  de- 
voted to  women  and  children,  making  a  total  provision 
for  forty-three  showers  and  four  tubs.  A  barbershop 
occupies  the  front  of  the  basement. 

That  it  has  not  only  become  a  necessity  but  a  boon 
to  the  neighborhood,  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  in 
its  thirteen  years  of  existence  846,539  men,  women,  and 
children  have  availed  themselves  of  the  privileges  there 
offered.  The  Committee  in  charge  early  decided  that 
no  one  who  could  not  afford  even  five  cents  for  a  bath 
should  be  turned  away,  so  that  of  this  total  61,267  were 
given  free  of  charge.  The  total  receipts  have  been 
$39,103.71  and  the  expenditures  have  kept  within  this 
amount,  so  that  it  is  self-sustaining,  and  as  far  as  is 
known  is  one  of  the  very  few  if  not  the  only  bath  of  its 
kind  in  the  country  that  does  not  have  to  be  assisted  by 
an  appropriation  from  the  city  or  contributions  from 
private  sources. 

The  operation  of  this  bath-house,  with  its  much  appre- 


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ciated  opportunities  for  cleanliness,  has  been  remarkably 
successful  and  the  great  and  constantly  growing  use- 
fulness of  this  benevolent  and  public-spirited  enterprise 
reflects  not  only  great  credit  upon  the  generous  donor 
but  upon  the  Committee  (or  Board,  as  the  management 
is  properly  called)  who  have  had  it  in  charge. 


SALUTE  TO  In  1897  the  Civic  Club  introduced  the 
THE  FLAG  "Salute  to  the  Flag"  in  several  schools 
1897  by  presenting  a  number  of  flags  to  the 

Franklin  School  (m  the  Tth  and  8th 
Wards),  where  a  large  proportion  of  the  children  were 
of  foreign  birth,  and  needed  education  and  object-les- 
sons in  patriotism.  This  example  was  followed  later 
by  the  Pittsburgh  Chapter  D.  A.  R.  which  has  furnished 
flags  for  a  number  of  schools  and  playgrounds. 


CHILDRENS  LEAGUES     The    "Children's     Leagues 
OF  GOOD  of        Good         Citizenship" 

CITIZENSHIP  which     were     inaugurated 

1897  in  1897  by  the  Educational 

Department,  soon  after 
the  playground  movement  became  a  success,  proved  less 
enduring,  principally  because  of  the  indifference  and 
discouragement  shown  by  the  school  authorities.  The 
leagues  were  established  in  six  schools ;  the  5th  Ward 
(Allegheny),  Franklin,  Ralston,  Columbian  Council 
School,  Birmingham,  and  6th  Ward  in  Pittsburgh, 
Badges  or  buttons  and  cards  with  the  rules  were  given 
to  the  children  and  the  work  proved  most  interesting 
and  attractive  the  first  year,  but  as  in  every  case  save 
that  of  the  Columbian  Council  School  they  lacked  the 
co-operation  of  teachers  and  principals,  they  gradually 
ceased  to  exist.     The  latter,  under  the  direction  of  Mrs. 


22  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Van  Wagonen  and  Mrs.  A.  Leo.  Weil,  continued  for 
some  time  to  hold  the  interest  of  the  children  in  the 
"hill  district." 


MISCELLANEOUS     During  the  year   1897,  activities 
ACTIVITIES  of  greater  or     less     importance 

1897  were  absorbing  the  attention  of 

committees  not  otherwise  ap- 
propriated. Among  them  were  the  efforts  to  have 
wholesome  food  provided  at  the  various  school  build- 
ings and  to  have  diet  kitchens  established  where  boys 
and  girls  could  purchase  their  luncheon  instead  of  eat- 
ing the  unwholesome  food  procured  at  outside  bakeries; 
to  have  the  ordinances  enforced  prohibiting  fast  riding 
and  driving,  also  prohibiting  the  throwing  of  fruit  or 
vegetables  upon  the  streets,  etc. ;  to  have  the  number 
of  letter-carriers  increased  through  the  Postmaster  Gen- 
eral at  Washington;  to  have  the  sidewalks  cleaned;  to 
urge  civil  service  reform,  and  the  adoption  of  the  merit 
system  in  state  and  municipal  affairs. 


ASSOCIATED  The  history  of  the  Civic  Club  does  not 
CHARITIES  record  an  undertaking  that  had  a  more 
1898  discouraging  career  than     that  inaug- 

urated to  federate  the  Charities  of 
Pittsburgh.  The  interval  between  the  beginning  and 
the  consummation  of  this  effort  saw  the  most  prolonged 
and  aggravated  problem  that  was  ever  launched  in  the 
organization.  The  discouragments  and  rebuffs  counter- 
acted by  the  patience  and  determination  to  ultimately 
associate  the  charitable  and  philanthropic  organizations 
involves  too  much  detail  to  recite  at  this  time,  but  the 
fact  that  the  Civic  Club  succeeded  in  accomplishing  its 
purpose,  namely,  the  organization  and  incorporation  of 
the  Associated  Charties  of  Pittsburgh  is  a  tribute  to  the 
perseverence  of  the  members  devoted  to  this  cause. 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  23 

With  the  knowledge  of  at  least  four  unsuccessful 
attempts  (from  as  many  different  sources)  to  system- 
atize the  administration  of  Pittsburgh  charities,  Mr. 
Robert  D.  McGonigle  accepted  the  Chairmanship  of  the 
Social  Science  Department  in  January,  1898,  on  condi- 
tion that  the  members  would  undertake  a  large  amount 
of  active  work  which  he  was  willing  to  outline  and  di- 
rect, stating  that  what  he  considered  the  most  important 
matter  for  the  Civic  Club  to  take  up  would  be  the  or- 
ganization of  the  various  charities  on  a  business  basis. 

A  large  committee  was  formed  with  a  plan  along 
lines  laid  down  by  similar  organizations  in  other  large 
cities.  It  was  not  inaugurated  with  the  idea  that  the 
existing  societies  and  organizations  were  not  doing  all 
the  work  they  were  intended  to  do,  but  because  there 
was  a  lack  of  interchange  and  organization  which  is 
found  so  desirable  in  all  branches  of  work,  commercial 
and  otherwise.  The  subcommittees  were  detailed  in  the 
preliminary  work  of  education  that  necessarily  was 
deemed  the  largest  factor  in  the  program  of  work.  The 
plan  taken  from  an  exhaustive  printed  report,  May  16, 
1898,  looked  for  the  following  results : 

1st.     No  outdoor  relief  by  the  city. 

2nd.     Strict  investigation  of  each  case. 

3rd.  Beggars  and  vagrants  to  be  arrested  and  dis- 
posed of  by  the  police  department. 

4th.     All  dependent  children  provided  for. 

5th.  The  worthy  poor  helped  by  the  proper 
authorities. 

6th.     Medical  relief  given  those  in  need. 

7th.     Chronic  paupers  sent  to  the  almshouse. 

8th.  Most  important  of  all,  no  duplications  and  no 
impositions  by  the  applicants  receiving  relief  at  all 
hands,  but  each  one  being  referred  to  the  proper  society 
or  department  under  which  they  might  come. 

9th.  Money  sent  to  all  concerned  and  good  work 
done  in  all  directions. 


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The  outlook  seemed  promising  at  the  end  of  the 
first  year  and  the  prejudice  against  the  movement  and 
the  opposition  thereto  seemed  to  be  gradually  passing 
away,  as  it  became  apparent  that  the  Civic  Club  did  not 
wish  to  abolish  any  existing  charitable  institutions,  but 
desired  each  to  be  represented  in  order  to  avoid  dupli- 
cation. A  Committee  of  fifteen  with  Hon.  Wm.  M. 
Kennedy,  Chairman,  was  appointed  to  compile  a  report 
of  the  annual  amount  of  relief  given  by  churches  and 
charity  organizations  for  presentation  at  a  public  meet- 
ing, with  a  view  to  establishing  an  Associated  Charities 
Organization. 

In  March,  1899,  cards  were  printed;  500  of  these  were 
for  Allegheny,  with  the  hope  that  an  index  card  system 
could  be  introduced,  but,  when  success  seemed  assured, 
an  unexpected  opposition  from  one  or  two  of  the  most 
important  charitable  organizations  defeated  the  plan. 
Quite  a  period  elapsed  covering  some  missionary  work 
in  this  direction  when  Mr.  Kennedy  again  urged  the 
necessity  for  the  establishment  of  a  Department  of  Or- 
ganized Charities.  In  1905  Miss  McKnight,  who  had 
previously  assisted  the  Committee  and  was  now  Presi- 
dent of  the  Club,  with  Mrs.  Frederick  Bagley,  Chairman 
of  the  Civic  Club  committee,  began  a  fresh  campaign  of 
education  and  endeavor  to  overcome  this  opposition. 
A  conference  and  interviews  were  held,  but  the  outcome 
was  most  discouraging,  with  the  additional  ill-fate  of 
losing  Mrs.  Bagley,  whose  residence  was  changed  to 
another  State.  However,  under  the  new  Chairman,  Mrs. 
C.  D.  Claney,  ably  assisted  by  Miss  Edna  Meeker,  a 
meeting  was  held  June  10,  1907,  which  was  attended  by 
the  representatives  of  eight  of  the  leading  societies. 
After  going  over  the  plan  thoroughly  it  was  agreed  by 
those  present  that  it  would  serve  relief  societies  by 
handling  for  them  cases  that  required  other  treatment 
than  material  assistance ;  it  would  help  hospitals  and 
other  institutions  doing  indoor  relief  work  and  having 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  25 

no  "visitors",  by  investigating  cases  for  them ;  it  would 
help  churches,  other  religious  bodies  and  the  general 
public  by  giving  prompt  attention  to  all  cases  of  need 
referred  by  them  to  this  central  bureau  or  clearing  house 
and  placing  each  family  or  individual  under  the  care  of 
the  organization  already  established  to  assist  them. 

It  was  agreed  that  the  Civic  Club  should  take  the 
initiative  in  presenting  the  matter  of  the  federation  of 
charities  to  other  societies  at  a  large  meeting  to  be  held 
in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Accordingly  this  meet- 
ing was  held  on  June  20th,  1907.  Hon.  William  M. 
Kennedy  presided,  and  Mr.  Wm.  H.  Allen,  General 
Agent  for  the  A.  I.  C.  P.  of  New  York,  made  the 
principal  address.  Over  200  attended,  representatives 
of  about  100  churches  and  philanthropic  societies; 
some  spoke  for  and  some  against  it,  but  a  resolution 
was  adopted  by  the  majority  favoring  the  association 
of  all  the  charities  of  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny,  and 
directing  the  Chairman  to  call  another  meeting  for 
further  deliberation.  On  June  28,  1907,  the  Civic  Club 
committee  presented  an  elaborate  plan  to  the  Board  of 
Directors  consisting  of  eight  sections,  one  of  which  was 
that  permission  be  granted  the  committee  to  raise  $3,- 
000.00  for  the  purpose  of  securing  data  and  co-operation 
with  this  committee.  In  general,  the  plan  as  outlined 
proposed  that  the  Civic  Club  guarantee  the  sal- 
ary of  a  secretary  for  six  months  with  all  office 
expenses  and  that  work  be  started  at  once.  There 
were  many  meetings  regarding  the  advisability  of 
this  plan  and  several  applicants  for  the  position 
from  other  cities  were  being  considered,  when 
the  overwhelming  catastrophe  of  Miss  McKnight's 
death  put  an  end  to  any  further  work  for  the  moment. 
At  the  time  of  her  death  she  had.  already  started 
a  fund  for  the  maintenance  of  a  central  office. 
The  wonderful  impetus  she  gave  this  work  was 
building  better  than  she  knew,  for  through  her 
experience,   bought   by   labor   unceasing   and   her   famil- 


26  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

iarity  with  the  conditions,  her  far-seeing  and  brilliant 
mind  brought  the  work  to  a  point  where  the  Civic  Club 
was  bound  to  carry  it  out. 

On  October  18,  1907,  another  mass  meeting  was 
held  at  which  Mr.  Kennedy  presided  and  Mr.  Francis 
McLean,  at  that  time  Field  Secretary  of  Charities  and 
the  Commons,  spoke  in  reference  to  the  relations  of  the 
central  organization  to  the  other  societies.  Representa- 
tives from  175  churches  and  philanthropic  societies  in 
Allegheny  County  were  present.  A  Committee  of  15, 
with  Mr.  Kennedy  as  Chairman,  was  appointed  "to  ar- 
range and  establish  a  Federation  of  Philanthropies  in 
Pittsburgh  and  to  place  it  on  a  working  basis". 

The  individual  labor  of  this  Committee  of  fifteen 
with  the  help  of  Mr.  Guthridge,  General  Secretary  of 
the  Associated  Charities  of  St.  Paul,  the  energetic  and 
helpful  assistance  of  Mr.  Francis  McLean  of  New  York, 
Mr.  Cornelius  D.  Scully,  of  the  Civic  Club,  resulted  in 
effecting  an  organization  in  December,  1907,  incorpo- 
rated as  the  Associated  Charities  of  Pittsburgh  on  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1908. 

Dr.  R.  M.  Little  accepted  the  temporary  Chairman- 
ship and  gave  of  his  time  and  ability  so  unstintingly 
that  much  of  the  well-deserved  success  of  the  Associa- 
tion is  due  to  his  initiative  and  leadership. 

Top  much  credit  cannot  be  given  to  all  those  who, 
too  numerous  to  mention,  devoted  so  much  time  and 
personal  service  to  the  organization  of  this  most  valu- 
able philanthropic  agent,  whose  fundamental  purpose 
may  be  realized  only  in  the  development  of  broad-spir- 
ited, patient  co-operation  among  individuals  and  exist- 
ing charities. 


ART  EXHIBIT  In  May  1898,    the    Art    De- 

IN  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS     partment,  under  Mrs.     Wm. 
1808  Thaw,  Jr.,     amply     justified 

its  existence     by     its     well- 
considered     endeavors  to     introduce     into     the     public 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  27 

schools  the  means  of  awakening  the  children  to  a 
sense  of  the  beautiful  in  nature  and  art.  A  large  col- 
lection of  pictures  and  casts,  which  had  been  purchased 
and  presented  to  the  Civic  Club,  was  divided  into  ex- 
hibits of  twelve  pictures  and  five  casts  each.  During 
five  years  the  pictures  were  simply  loaned  to  the  schools 
in  both  cities  as  a  traveling  art  collection.  At  the  end 
of  the  year  1903  the  collection  was  broken  up,  and  the 
pictures  and  casts  were  presented  permanently  to  the 
schools.  Through  the  influence  of  the  Chairman,  sixty 
pictures  and  casts  were  presented  by  the  late  William 
R.  Thompson  to  the  Fourth  Ward  school  in  Pittsburgh. 
Some  of  these  were  placed  in  the  halls  and  the  rest  in 
one  large  room.  This  was  called  the  "Art  Room", 
which  the  children  were  permitted  to  visit  any  time  after 
school  hours. 


ARBOR  DAY     Following  the  activities   in  connection 
1898  with  starting  the  traveling  art  exhibit, 

Mrs.  Thaw  and  her  department  in  the 
year  1898  enlisted  the  assistance  of  'the  Educational  De- 
partment in  plans  for  inaugurating  the  observance  of 
Arbor  Day  in  the  Public  Schools.  Mrs.  Van  Wagonen, 
as  Chairman  of  a  special  committee,  outlined  a  compre- 
hensive program  which  was  presented  to  and  approved 
by  the  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny  School  Boards  of  Con- 
trol and  the  Principals' Club,  and  was  sent  to  the  schools 
in  both  cities.  Mr.  E.  M.  Bigelow  co-operated  by  furnish- 
ing trees  for  some  of  the  school  yards,  and  the  day  was 
quite  extensively  observed  by  most  of  the  schools.  The 
reading  of  the  Governor's  proclamation,  talks  about 
trees,  songs  and  tree  planting  were  included  in  the  cere- 
monies. The  following  year  the  Association  of  Colleg- 
iate Alumnae  co-operated,  and  besides  the  public  school 
exercises  for  which  the  committee  furnished  the  pro- 
grams in  both  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny,  it  was  cele- 
brated at  the  Newsboys  Home,  at  the  Colored  Orphan 


28  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Asylum,  where  Miss  Oliver  planted  trees,  Protestant 
Orphan  Asylum,  Home  for  the  Friendless,  and  at  the 
Peoples  Bath  House  where  Mrs.  Thaw  planted  trees, 
Kingsley  House  taking  part  in  the  celebration.  The 
Civic  Club  carried  on  this  work  with  varying  degrees 
of  success  throughout  the  following  years.  The  spirit 
of  the  day  has  taken  a  stronger  hold  on  the  schools  and 
its  significance  has  been  illustrated  through  lectures  by 
many  interested  persons,  notable  among  whom  is  Mr. 
Frederick  S.  Webster  and  Professor  John  A.  Brashear. 
Through  the  principals  and  teachers  the  Linden, 
Homewood,  Liberty,  Friendship,  and  5th  Avenue  High 
School  have  contributed  largely  to  its  success. 


MISCELLANEOUS     At  various  times  during  the  year 
ACTIVITIES  1898  efforts  were   made  to   have 

1898  manual   training     and     domestic 

science  taught  in  all  the  schools; 
and  an  effort  was  made,  with  the  assistance  of  Director 
J.  O.  Brown  of  the  Department  of  Public  Safety,  to  sup- 
press the  posting  of  immodest  and  objectionable  posters; 
the  opportunity  was  taken  to  co-operate,  at  the  sugges- 
tion of  the  Rev.  Chas.  L.  Thurgood,  with  the  "Early 
Closing  Association  Movement". 


EVENING  INDUSTRIAL      One   of  the   most   impor- 
SCHOOLS  tant    and  successful  things 

1898  undertaken  by    the    Edu- 

cational Department  .  in 
1898  was  the  boys'  evening  industrial  schools,  under 
the  enthusiastic  and  successful  Chairmanship  of  Mrs. 
Oscar  Kleber.  At  the  first  one  started  in  the  O'Hara 
School  100  boys  presented  themselves,  but  only  30 
could  be  accommodated.     Later  on  another  Boys'  Club 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  29 

was  started  with  35  boys  from  9  to  16  years,  in  several 
rooms  tendered  by  the  directors  of  the  Springfield 
School. 

While  these  evening  schools  were  later  abandoned 
(for  they  were  practically  j;he  beginning  of  the  Law- 
renceville  Civic  Club)  they  were  of  decided  value  as 
part  of  the  educational  movement  that  has  since  re- 
sulted in  the  wide  public  recognition  of  the  necessity  for 
such  evening  schools. 


YOUNG  MEN'S  CIVIC  CLUB      The      boys'       clubs 
OF  LAWRENCEVILLE  grew  so  rapidly  and 

1899  presented      such      a 

field  for  more  pre- 
tentious work  that  Mrs.  Kleber,  after  having  personally 
examined  the  scope  and  magnitude  of  the  working 
men's  clubs  in  New  York  and  having  learned  that  boys 
as  well  as  men  were  equally  eligible  to  membership,  the 
older  men  paying  fees  and  dues  commensurate  with 
their  wage-earning  capacity  and  thus  making  it  possi- 
ble for  the  boys  to  accept  membership  without  distress, 
decided  that  these  same  methods  could  be  tried  in 
Pittsburgh. 

Mrs.  Kleber  took  up  this  work  in  the  old  12th  Ward 
of  the  city,  facing  the  difficulty  of  getting  sufficient  men 
interested  to  start  the  work.  Standing  by  one  of  the 
gates  of  the  large  mills,  she  announced  the  meeting 
which,  would  be  held  in  the  Springfield  School,  and, 
though  the  response  to  the  invitation  was  not  what 
could  be  called  hearty,  a  few  men  came,  their  enthus- 
iasm was  passed  along,  several  more  meetings  followed 
and  the  audience  increased  each  time.  As  it  increased, 
so  did  Mrs.  Kleber's  anxiety  as  she  pondered  how  she 
would  obtain  the  funds  necessary  to  place  a  roof  over 
this  fully-organized  club  to  be  known  as  the  Young 
Men's   Civic   Club   of  Lawrenceville.     The  n;atter  was 


30  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 


put  before  the  Civic  Club  Educational  Department  and 
its  support  was  readily  granted,  Miss  Kennard,  its 
Chairman,  proving  an  able  assistant. 

Mr.  H.  C.  Frick  gave  a  liberal  cash  donation  and  a 
number  of  gentlemen  signified  their  wriHingness  to  be- 
come honorary  members,  paying  $10.00  a  year.     At  the 
same  time  the  Civic  Club  Board  agreed  to  supply  any 
deficiency  in  the  rent  for  the  first  three  months  and  the 
lease  was  signed  for  a  building  at  2901  Penn  Avenue  in 
April,  1899.    Later  on  Mr.  Charles  Schwab  and  Mr.  Os- 
car   Kleber  guaranteed  the  rent  but  it  was  never  necessary 
to  take  advantage  of  this  security.     It  was  a  large  three 
story  house,  well  ventilated,  well  lighted,  clean  as^hard 
work  could  make  it,  and  containing  a  music     room,     a 
gymnasium,  equipped  by  Mrs.  C.  L.  Magee,  bath  rooms 
constructed  as  the  gift  of  Mrs.  J.  R.  McGinley,  billiard 
and  pool  room  equipment,  the     gift     of     Mr.     Charles 
Schwab,   rooms  for  conversation,   furnis'hed  with   com- 
fortable chairs  and  leather  couch,  roll  top     desk,     etc., 
donations    from    many  interested  members  of  the  Club  in- 
cluding  Mrs.   William  Thaw,  Jr.,  and   Mrs.   Alexander 
King.     A  branch   station  of  the  Carnegie  Library  was 
installed   and  Miss   Louise  Taylor  generously  assumed 
•the  office  of  librarian.     A  piano   aflforded  a  wealth  of 
pleasure    and    comfort   to   the   individual    members.     A 
number  of  entertainments  were  given  and  a  large  Christ- 
mas treat,  with  all  the  charm  of  the  holiday  festival,  was 
given  to   700   children  of  the  ward   in   1899.     "BuflFalo 
Bill"  added  a  generous  donation  in  the  way  of  entrance 
tickets  for  fifty  of  the  younger  boys  to  ihis  Wild  West 
Show.     Under  the  personal  supervision  of  Mrs.  Kleber, 
this  young  army  was  successfully  guided  to  the  show 
grounds   where  the   treat  was   enthusiastically   enjoyed 
by  the  youngsters. 

The  club-house  was  never  closed,  for  the  men  work- 
ing at  day  turn  used  it  as  late  as  11  o'clock  at  night,  and 
men  employed  during  the  night  used  it  by  day.  With  the 
dues  fifty  cents  a  month  and  the  donations  received,  it 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  31 

became  self-sustaining  almost  immediately  and  flour- 
ished for  nearly  six  years.  It,  however,  had  not  become 
independent  so  far  as  its  management  was  concerned. 
To  a  man  they  relied  absolutely  upon  Mrs.  Kleber  to 
take  the  executive  responsibility,  with  the  fatal  result 
of  a  complete  physical  breakdown  of  their  beloved  leader 
and  head.  It  was  deemed  advisable  to  let  the  men  and 
boys  assume  the  management,  but  the  loss  of  their  en- 
thusiastic confidante  and  guide  seemed  to  undermine 
the  organization,  and  gradually  the  members'hip  of  the 
Club  diminished  and  the  organization  declined. 

Not  realizing  that  the  responsibility  that  was  so 
beneficiently  assumed  by  Mrs.  Kleber  was  not  only  over- 
burdening her,  but  diminishing  the  power  of  resistance 
when  it  came  to  the  obstacles  to  be  encountered  in  self- 
government,  this  Club,  through  its  own  inability,  ceased 
to  exist  and  has  unfortunately  become  a  thing  of  the 
pa. St.  Without  doubt  there  still  lingers  in  the  minds  of 
those  who  were  fortunate  enough  to  have  enjoyed  its 
privileges,  a  cherished  memory  for  the  many  and  gen- 
erous helps  received  from  the  kindly  disposed  people  of 
the  community  and  especially  the  personal  services  of 
Mrs.  Kleber  and  her  committee. 


YOUNG  MEN'S  The  Young  Men's  Civic  Club  of 
CIVIC  CLUB  OF  Allegheny  was  organized  in  1899, 
ALLEGHENY  following     the     successful     begin- 

1899  ning  of    the    Lawrenceville    Club, 

An  advisory  committee  was  the 
only  connecting  link  with  the  parent  Club  save  the 
great  interest  of  its  individual  members,  chief  among 
whom  were  Miss  Kate  C.  McKnight,  Mrs.  Herbert  Du- 
Puy,  Mrs.  Sullivan  Johnson  and  Mrs.  \yilliam  H. 
Black.  Miss  McKnight,  who  was  an  active  worker  for 
the  Club's  best  interests  up  to  the  time  of  her  death, 
and  Mrs.  DuPuy,  who  'has  been  the  Club's  most  staunch 


32  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

supporter  since  its  inception,  were  responsible  for  its 
organization. 

Its  first  residence  was  on  Western  Avenue,  but  it 
was  later  moved  to  Windsor  Street,  Allegheny,  where 
it  was  located  until  August,  1910.  The  Club,  though  not 
directly  following  the  line  of  civics,  has  been  very  help- 
ful in  many  good  movements  and  showed  its  apprecia- 
tion by  doing  a  large  share  towards  putting  Miss  Mc- 
Knight  on  the  5th  Ward  School  Board,  Allegheny,  the 
only  woman  director  who  has  ever  served  in  either  of 
the  two  cities. 

In  the  fall  of  1909  the  membership  had  decreased, 
owing  to  the  change  of  residence  of  many  of  its  old 
members,  and  upon  appealing  to  the  Civic  Club  for 
assistance,  the  committee  appointed  found  that  all  the 
efforts  made  to  renew  the  membership  had  been  fruitless, 
as  the  club-house  needed  many  repairs  and  a  gymnasium 
to  bring  it  up-to-date.  The  business  of  tiding  over  the 
imminent  crisis  in  the  Club's  affairs  was  most  capably 
handled  by  Miss  Emily  McCreery,  a  member  of  the 
Civic  Club  Board  and  Committee,  who  called  a  large 
meeting  in  April  1910,  started  an  associate  membership 
and  reorganized  the  advisory  board,  whose  dues,  with 
several  large  donations,  have  once  more  put  this  Club 
on  its  feet.  In  August,  1910,  the  property  leased  by  the 
Club  was  sold  for  a  factory  site  and  it  now  occupies  an 
entire  store  building  at  1256  Rebecca  Street,  the  gym- 
nasium being  nicely  accommodated  in  the  store  room. 
A  shower  bath  has  been  set  up  which  proves  an  attrac- 
tion to  the  men  from  the  mills  across  the  street. 

A  series  of  lectures  has  been  arranged  for  the  win- 
ter of  1910  and  1911  by  Mr.  Julian  Kennedy,  to  be  fol- 
lowed by  Mr.  Chas.  F.  Weller,  Rabbi  Coffee  and  others. 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  33 

SMOKE  ABATEMENT     In  April,  1897,  the  first  Com- 
1899  mittee     was     appointed     to 

take  up  actively  tihe  diffi- 
cult proposition  of  smoice  abatement,  which  it  did  by 
accepting  an  invitation  to  inspect  certain  plants,  and  evi- 
dently was  either  so  <^wcouraged  or  encouraged  that  it 
ceased  operations  immediately  thereafter.  In  January, 
1899,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  appointed  a  committee 
of  five  and  requested  that  a  similar  committee  be  ap- 
pointed from  the  Civic  Club  to  co-operate  with  them 
in  a  united  effort  which  would  be  directed  toward  the 
enactment  of  an  ordinance  regulating  the  smoke  nui- 
sance in  Pittsburgh.  A  Committee  with  Mr.  A.  M. 
Imbrie,  Chairman,  did  everything  in  its  power  toward 
this  much  needed  reform,  and  served  in  divisions  under 
heads  as  follows :  A — Committee  on  smoke  arising  from 
domestic  fires  and  metallurgical  manufacturing  estab- 
lishments. B — Committee  on  smoke  from  office  build- 
ings and  all  others  not  included  in  A.  C — Committee  on 
Legislation ;  of  this  latter  a  sub-committee  was  ap- 
pointed to  meet  with  the  city  officials  and  secure  the 
appointment  of  a  smoke  commission.  The  Civic  Club 
stayed  with  this  problem  to  the  end  and  can  justly  claim 
a  large  share  of  the  glory  of  this  lengthy  and  trouble- 
some campaign.  Through  varying  degrees  of  success 
and  discouragement,  these  committees,  supplemented 
by  other  members  as  time  went  on,  labored  until  Decem- 
ber, 1906,  when  a  most  effective  ordinance  for  the  pre- 
vention of  unnecessary  smoke  in  the  use  of  fuel  was 
passed  by  both  branches  of  Councils. 

As  this  history  goes  to  press,  the  Pittsburgh  smoke 
ordinance  has  been  declared  unconstitutional.  This 
necessitates  the  passage  of  a  State  law  conferring  the 
police  power  requisite  for  the  enforcement  of  such  ordi- 
nances.   

LEGAL  AID     In  October,  1899,  a  committee  with  Mr. 
1899  Edwin  L.  Mattern  as  Chairman  was  ap- 

pointed to  investigate  and  report  upon 
the  advisability  of  establishing  a  Legal  Aid  Society  un- 


/^S^ 


34  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 


der  the  auspices  of  the  Civic  Club.  After  a  presentation 
of  the  facts  concerning  similar  work  carried  on  in  other 
cities,  the  Board  of  the  Civic  Club  favorably  considered 
the  plan  as  outlined  and  enlarged  the  committee  to  carry 
out  the  details  of  the  work. 

An  active  campaign  for  funds  was  instituted  and  a 
large  sum  raised  with  which  to  employ  counsel  when 
necessary,  for  the  purpose  of  giving  legal  advice  and 
assistance  (including  prosecution  or  defense  of  suit  in 
proper  cases)  to  deserving  persons  in  need  of  such  aid 
and  unable  to  pay  for  it. 

In  1901  Mr.  Wm.  A.  Jordon  was  engaged  as  regular 
Attorney.  Cards  were  printed  for  applicants  and  distrib- 
uted to  the  various  philanthropic  agencies.  Later  on 
and  up  to  1908  the  place  of  the  regular  Solicitor  was 
taken  by  Attorneys  who  gave  their  services ;  chief  among 
these  being  Mr.  William  McNair,  to  whom  the  Club  is 
indebted  for  most  efficient  and  generous  personal  ser- 
vice. In  May,  1907,  a  re-organization  of  the  committee 
was  decided  upon  and  Mr.  Richard  H.  Hawkins  and  Mr. 
Wm.  K.  Johnson  were  appointed  to  draw  up  a  plan  of 
working  rules  for  enlarging  and  carrying  on  the  work. 
Through  this  plan  a  better  organization  within  the  Legal 
Aid  Committee  had  been  made,  but  on  the  eve  of  its 
operation,  the  above  committee,  with  the  addition  of 
eight  members  of  the  Allegheny  County  Bar,  believing 
they  could  more  eftectively  carry  on  the  work  by  organ- 
izing and  incorporating  as  an  independent  legal  aid  so- 
ciety, asked  the  committee  to  discontinue  its  efforts  for 
six  months  in  their  favor. 

They  desired,  however,  to  secure  the  co-operation 
of  the  Civic  Club  in  the  organization  of  this  society, — 
their  idea  being  to  have  some  of  the  officers  of  the  Club 
join  with  them  in  a  petition  for  a  charter.  They  pledged 
themelves  to  promote  a  society  along  the  general  lines 
suggested  in  the  report  submitted  to  the  committee  in 
July,  1907.  They  volunteered  to  assume  the  duties  and 
take  the  place  of  the  Legal  Aid  Committee  of  the  Civic 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  35 

Club  in  establishing  a  properly  organized  society  in 
Pittsburgh.  The  Board  gave  its  consent  and  the  Legal 
Aid  Society  of  Pittsburgh  was  incorporated  in  April, 
1908.  Its  charter  provides  that  of  its  board  of  nine 
directors  two  shall  be  members  of  the  Civic  Club.  Mr. 
Charles  B.  Fernald,  w'ho  was  Chairman  of  the  committee 
at  this  time,  and  Mr.  Arthur  W.  Bell  were  appointed  to 
serve  as  the  Club's  representatives  following  the  organ- 
ization. 

The  Legal  Aid  Society  of  Pittsburgh,  of  which  Mar- 
cus W.  Acheson,  Jr.,  Esq.,  is  at  present  the  very  active  and 
efficient  President,  fills  a  most  useful  field  and  has  been 
a  conspicuous  success  from  the  start.  Its  permanency  as 
an  organization  is  guaranteed  by  a  well  selected  Ad- 
visory Board,  a  generous  list  of  subscribing  members, 
and  the  unselfish  enthusiasm  of  its  directorate  composed 
of  representative  younger  members  of  the  Bar.  It  has 
for  three  years  maintained  permanent  offices,  with  Ben- 
jamin M.  Price,  Esq.,  as  Attorney  in  charge,  in  the  Bake- 
well  Building,  and  its  annual  public  reports  make  most 
interesting  reading  and  demonstrate  its  efficiency  and 
helpfulness,  through  a  wide  range  of  legal  procedure,  to 
the  poor  and  oppressed.  This  is  an  off-shoot  of  the  Civic 
Club  of  which  the  parent  body  may  well  be  proud. 


CIGARETTES  Beginning  with  the  year  1899,  and  at 
TO  MINORS  various  times  since  throughout  the 
1899  succeeding  years,  the  Civic   Club   has 

been  interested  in  assisting  move- 
ments for  enforcing  the  anti-cigarette  law  for  minors. 
Proof  of  violation  on  the  part  of  merchants  and  threat- 
ened prosecutions  formed  a  most  effective  method  of 
minimizing  the  number  of  cases  reported.  State  legis- 
lation on  this  matter  has  always  been  actively  en- 
dorsed. 


36  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

SCHOOL  INSPECTION     The     Educational     Depart- 
1900  ment  during  the  year  1900 

concentrated  its  efforts 
upon  certain  measures  in  which  it  'had  been  asked  to 
assist  a  special  committee  of  the  Central  Board  of  Edu- 
cation formed  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  the  effi- 
ciency and  securing  more  uniformity  in  the  public 
schools.  The  new  course  of  study  was  a  subject  of 
special  interest  at  this  time  and  the  Department  of 
Education  held  a  public  meeting  to  whicli  school  direct- 
ors and  others  were  invited,  for  the  discussion  of  this 
course  of  study,  in  order  that  it  might  be  understood 
and  used  in  all  the  local  schools.  The  Department  also 
urged  the  inspection  of  the  sc'hool  buildings  and  that 
they  should  be  made  sanitary  and  healthful,  with  abun- 
dance of  light  and  good  ventilation.  The  Committee  on 
School  Legislation  began  a  comparative  schedule  of 
school  laws  in  all  the  representative  States  and  the  Com- 
mittee on  School  Visiting  inspected  a  number  of  school 
buildings. 

While  not  initiating  any  radical  changes  in  the 
schools  at  this  time,  the  Department  was  in  constant 
touch  with  the  progressive  members  of  t'he  Central 
Board  of  Education  and  members  of  local  boards,  and 
assisted  in  securing  a  number  of  improvements  by  co- 
operating with  these. 


MODEL  In  1900  a  Committee  on  Better  Hous- 

TENEMENTS      ing  for  the  Poor  was  created  with  a 
1900  view  to  effecting  the  organization  of 

of  a  corporation  for  the  building  of 
model  tenements.  An  open  meeting  was  held  February 
2,  1900,  wben  the  matter  was  thoroughly  discussed.  Mr. 
Jacob  Riis  of  New  York  upon  this  occasion  greatly 
stimulated  the  movement  by  an  address  on  "Improved 
Housing  of  the  Poor".     Circular  letters  were  sent  out 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  37 

soliciting  subscriptions  to  the  stock  of  the  proposed 
concern,  but  the  apathetic  reception  the  proposition  re- 
ceived when  it  came  to  a  matter  of  dollars  and  cents 
caused  this  enthusiastic  committee  to  abandon  the  plan. 


ARSENAL  PARK     It  will  no  doubt  be  surprising  to 
1901  many  to  learn  that  as  far  back  as 

May,  1901,  the  Civic  Club  urged 
upon  Councils  "that  steps  must  be  taken  immediately  to 
secure  for  the  benefit  of  the  citizens  of  Pittsburgh  the 
site  now  used  as  a  United  States  Arsenal  for  use  as  a 
public  park".  In  December,  1905,  a  petition  was  sent 
from  the  Civic  Club  to  the  Hon.  Wm.  H.  Taft,  then  Sec- 
retary of  War,  asking  'him  to  recommend  the  presenta- 
tion of  the  Arsenal  Grounds  to  the  city  for  a  recreation 
park  and  playground,  in  case  the  government  decided  to 
abandon  the  property.  Letters  to  the  same  effect  were 
sent  to  the  Allegheny  County  Representatives  and  State 
Senators.  The  Committee  received  most  discouraging 
replies  and  upon  advice  of  the  majority  of  the  repre- 
sentatives from  this  district,  abandoned  the  efifort  to  ob- 
tain the  grounds  as  a  gift  and  set  about  trying  to  lease 
the  property  for  a  small  rental.  This  also  failed,  but  the 
seed  sown  in  the  mind  of  the  Hon.  James  Francis  Burke, 
grew  and  flourished,  and  largely  through  his  efforts, 
what  is  now  known  as  the  Arsenal  Park  was  dedicated 
to  the  use  of  the  public  July  4th,  1907.  The  city  and  es- 
pecially the  neighborhood  of  Lawrenceville,  where  it  is 
situated,  have  frequently  acknowledged  their  deep 
sense  of  gratitude  to  Mr.  Burke  for  this  beautiful  and 
useful  acquisition  to  the  Pittsburg^h  Park  system. 


38  Civic  Club  op  Allegheny  County 

TEACHERS  AND     The   Teachers   and   Parents  Asso- 
PARENTS  ciation  Committee  started  by  this 

ASSOCIATION  Club  in  1901,  ihad  its     first     and 

1901  most    flourishing    organization    in 

the  Garfield  School ;  the  princi- 
pal, Miss  Sarah  Piatt  being  responsible  for  the  interest 
that  kept  these  meetings  alive  for  almost  eight  years. 
The  Kindergarten  and  the  Playground  Associations 
have  initiated  similiar  work  and  the  Educational  De- 
partment of  the  Civic  Club  during  the  period  since  1901 
has  started  these  meetings  in  various  schools,  believing 
that  this  plan  to  bring  the  teacher  and  parent  into 
closer  touch  and  understanding  is  as  pleasant  as  it  is 
beneficial,  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  system  will  be  estab- 
lished in  ever}^  school  in  the  city. 


CITY  CHARTER     The   first  report  on  record  of  any 
1901  action   of   the    Civic    Club    relative 

to  a  new  city,  charter  for  Pitts- 
burg^h  was  made  on  May  2,  1896,  when  Mr.  E.  Z.  Smith, 
Chairman  of  the  Department  of  Government,  reported 
a  meeting  at  which  a  general  discussion  of  the  proposed 
new  charter  for  Pittsburgh  was  held,  and  delegates 
were  appointed  to  attend  the  annual  meeting  in  Balti- 
more of  the  National  Municipal  League  which  was  then 
engaged  in  formulating  a  model  charter  for  cities.  At 
the  same  time  it  recorded  its  unqualified  condemnation 
of  the  existing  Pittsburgh  charter  as  unscientific, 
irrational  and  apparently  designed  to  promote 
irresponsible  government.  The  situation  remained 
unchanged  (except  as  aggravated  by  the  lapse  of 
time),  up  to  1901,  when  interest  in  the  matter  was 
stirred  up  through  a  number  of  meetings  and  animated 
discussions  which  were  held,  and  exhaustive  reports 
were  prepared  relative  to  the  value  of  the  various  reme- 
dial   measured    suggested.      Following   t'he   lead   of   the 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  39 

Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Civic  Club  further  co-oper- 
ated by  sending  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  to  Har- 
risburg  to  speak  in  favor  of  the  Bill  which  passed  the 
Legislature  in  1901.  The  Civic  Club,  however,  regis- 
tered its  opposition  at  that  time  to  the  so  called 
"Ripper"  clause  in  this  Act. 


JUVENILE  COURT     "There   is  no  more  well   estab- 
1901  lished  fact  than  that  civic  wel- 

fare is  increased  or  retarded 
in  direct  ratio  to  the  decrease  or  increase  of  the  pauper 
and  criminal  classes."  It  follows  that  the  delinquent 
and  dependent  child  affords  the  most  serious  problem  of 
the  community's  future  welfare. 

At  the  end  of  the  year  1901  a  committee,  consisting 
of  Mrs.  William  Whitman,  Mrs.  E.  L.  Mattern,  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Henry  Francis  Wade,  Miss  Grace  Henderson 
and  the  Rev.  W.  L.  Mason,  was  appointed  by  the  Civic 
Club  with  Mrs.  George  H.  Wilson,  Chairman,  to  formu- 
late plans  for  the  organization  of  a  Juvenile  Court  in 
Allegheny  County.  In  the  spring  of  1902,  conferences 
were  held  with  Judges,  District  Attorneys,  and  County 
Commissioners,  and  money  was  raised  to  further  the 
project;  but  it  was  not  until  November,  1903,  that  the 
work  took  definite  form. 

At  this  time  the  Permanent  Civic  Committee  be- 
came a  part  of  the  movement  with  the  result  that  the 
two  forces  combined  and  formed  what  was  known  as 
the  Juvenile  Court  Committee  with  Mrs.  Richard  R. 
Quay,  Chairman,  Mrs.  E.  E.  Crocker,  Vice  Chairman, 
Mrs.  W.  J,  Young,  Treasurer  and  Mrs.  William  T. 
Whitman,  Secretary.  The  committee's  first  efiforts 
were  devoted  to  securing  capable  probation  officers,  a 
difficult  and  delicate  task.  Many  applicants  for  the  posi- 
tion,  under   the   new   Juvenile   Court   Law,   which   had 


40  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

been    passed   by   the    preceding    Legislature,    presented 
themselves. 

Mrs.  Alice  Montgomery,  whose  peculiar  fitness  for 
the  important  w^ork  of  probation  officer  was  well  known 
to  the  committee  through  her  services  in  this  work  in 
the  Philadelphia  Juvenile  Court,  came  to  Pittsburgh  to 
take  up  the  work  and  was  later  sworn  in  as  probation 
officer  by  Judge  Evans  on  April  28th,  1903 ;  her  salary 
being  guaranteed  by  the  Civic  Club.  The  printing  and 
incidental  expenses  were  paid  by  the  Civic  Club. 

Not  unexpectedly,  the  Juvenile  Court  Law  was  de- 
clared unconstitutional  by  Judge  Porter  of  the  Superior 
Court  in  Philadelphia  in  February,  1903.  Fortunately 
the  Legislature  was  then  in  session  and  the  Juvenile 
Court  Committees  of  both  Philadelphia  and  Pittsburgh 
were  successful  in  securing  the  passage  of  five  unexcep- 
tionable Acts  commonly  known  as  the  Juvenile  Court 
Laws,  which  Governor  Pennypacker  signed  in  March, 
1903. 

It  was  early  decided  that  efforts  should  be  made  to 
arouse  interest  in  the  work  in  the  neighboring  counties 
of  Western  Pennsylvania,  To  this  end,  Mrs.  Montgom- 
ery addressed  meetings  in  Oil  City,  Waynesburg,  Titus- 
ville,  and  Washington,  and  1,000  copies  of  the  Juvenile 
Court  Laws,  furnished  by  the  Civic  Club,  were  sent  out. 
This  seed  has  born  fruit  in  the  establishment  of  a 
Juvenile  Court  in  Washington  County. 

The  second  year  Miss  Kate  McKnight  was  made 
Chairman,  Mrs.  E.  E.  Crocker,  first  Vice  Chairman,  Rev. 
C.  L.  Thurgood,  second  Vice  Chairman,  Mrs.  Levi  Bird 
Duff,  third  Vice  Chairman,  with  Mrs.  Quay  and  Mrs. 
Whitman  continuing  as  Treasurer  and  Secretary  respec- 
tively. 

The  next  year  the  Civic  Club  sent  a  copy  of  the 
Juvenile  Court  report  (with  blanks  attached  soliciting 
subscription)  to  every  member  of  the  Club.  The  fund 
thus  created  was  used  to  pay  the  salary  of  one  probation 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  41 

officer,  and  this  support  was  continued  until  January, 
1910,  after  which  it  was  no  longer  necessary. 

In  February,  1905,  the  Juvenile  Court  Committee 
desired  to  reorganize  as  an  independent  association  and 
the  Permanent  Civic  Committee  and  the  Civic  Club 
granted  this  request.  The  new  organization  became  the 
Juvenile  Court  Association,  with  Miss  McKnight  con- 
tinuing as  President.  The  Civic  Club,  however,  re- 
tained (and  still  continues  to  retain)  a  Juvenile  Court 
Committee,  with  Mrs.  William  T.  Whitman,  Chairman, 
which  has  raised  funds  for  the  maintenance  of  one  pro- 
bation officer  and  interested  itself  in  the  children's 
cases. 

Special  mention  must  be  made  of  the  constant  and 
devoted  attention  that  Mrs.  Whitman  has  given  to  every 
minute  detail  of  the  work  of  the  Juvenile  Court  move- 
ment in  this  County.  Her  faithful  and  loyal  service 
not  only  in  the  Civic  Club  but  in  the  Juvenile  Court  As- 
sociation through  all  these  years  cannot  be  too  highly 
commended. 

With  the  passage  of  an  Act  in  1909,  the  Civic  Club 
and  the  several  other  societies  which  supported  proba- 
tion officers,  were  relieved  of  the  payment  of  these  sal- 
aries by  the  County,  but  each  continues  to  give  a  cer- 
tain sum  toward  making  up  the  salary  of  the  chief  proba- 
tion officer,  the  law  not  providing  more  than  $100  a 
month  for  each  officer.  The  Civic  Club  Committee  "has 
fitted  up,  with  games,  a  room  kindly  loaned  by  the 
Board  in  the  Ralston  School,  where  its  probation  officer 
of  that  district  meets  her  boys  once  a  week,  and  stands 
ready  to  give  whatever  service  is  needed  to  other 
phases  of  t'he  work  that  will  in  any  way  tend  to  improve 
the  Juvenile  Court  system  in  this  State. 

The  Juvenile  Court  Association  has  an  active  Legis- 
lation Committee,  composed  of  competent  Attorneys, 
which  'has  framed  and  caused  to  be  introduced  in  the 
successive  sessions  of  the  Legislature  a  number  of  Bills 
dealing  with  delinquent  children,  adult  contribution  to 


42  Civic  Club  op  Allegheny  County 

delinquency,  salaries  of  Juvenile  Court  officers,  and 
Juvenile  Court  practice,  a  number  of  whic'h  form  a  most 
valuable  and  essential  part  of  the  present  statute  law^  on 
this  broad  subject.  In  conjunction  w^ith  the  Philadel- 
phia organization,  with  which  this  Committee  collabor- 
ates, it  is  now  engaged  in  the  preparation  of  comprehen- 
sive and  progressive  Juvenile  Court  Code,  wliich  will 
ultimately  become  law  and  will  amplify  and  systematize 
the  Juvenile  Court  jurisdiction  and  practice  throughout 
the  State. 

A  Committee  has  been  appointed  by  the  Board  of 
Directors  to  apply  for  a  charter  of  incorporation  for  the 
Association,  w'hich  is  expected  to  be  granted  at  about  the 
time  this  volume  goes  to  press.  It  has  been  decidedthatthe 
body  will  gain  the  benefit  of  more  authoritative  standing 
under  the  State  law,  as  well  as  permanency  in  form  of 
organization,  under  corporate  authority. 


PERMANENT  CIVIC     During   the   year   1902,      Miss 
COMMITTEE  McKnight,   who  was   one     of 

1902  the  officers  of     the     Pennsyl- 

vania State  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs,  Mrs.  F.  P.  lams,  Mrs.  Levi  Bird  Duff 
and  others,  organized  what  was  known  as  the  "Perma- 
nent Civic  Committee" — a  committee  composed  of  rep- 
resentatives of  the  various  Women's  Clubs  in  Western 
Pennsylvania.  Later  in  the  same  year  Miss  McKnight 
became  President  of  the  Civic  Club,  and  the  officers  of 
the  Civic  Club  and  the  Permanent  Civic  Committee  be- 
ing practically  the  same,  during  several  ensuing  years 
the  two  associations  did  much  of  their  work  in  closest 
co-operation. 


SOHO  PUBLIC  BATHS     No  other  work  of  the  Club 
1902  has  involved  the  raising  of 

so   much     money     as     the 
building  of  these  baths,  and  none  of  its  committees  de- 


[f  OF-^  , 

Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  43 

serves  greater  commendation  both  from  the  Club  and 
from:  the  public  than  the  Soho  Baths  Committee,  to 
whose  efforts,  extending  through  a  period  of  several 
years — whic'hi  were  rendered  most  arduous  by  the  gen- 
eral apathy  of  the  public  on  the  subject  of  providing 
bathing  facilities  for  its  poor — the  city  of  Pittsburgh  is 
indebted  for  the  beautiful  and  complete  building  at  No. 
2410  Fifth  Avenue. 

When,  in  the  late  fall  of  1902,  the  Permanent  Civic 
Committee  of  Womens  Clubs,  which:  also  had  a  Public 
Baths  Committee,  with  aims  and  purposes  synonymous 
with  those  of  a  similar  committee  of  the  Civic  Club, 
affiliated  itself  with  this  Club  along  certain  analogous 
lines  of  work,  and  the  two  bath  committees  joined 
forces,  under  the  efficient  leadership  of  Mrs.  Alfred 
Longmore  as  Chairman.  Various  attempts  were  made 
to  induce  the  city  to  build  bath  houses,  to  provide  safe 
places  for  river  bathing,  etc.,  to  persuade  school  boards 
to  install  bathing  facilities  in  their  school  houses,  and 
large  manufactories  to  equip  their  plants  with  showers, 
and  numerous  wealthy  citizens  were  approached  with 
the  suggestion  t'hat  they  erect  and  donate  bath  houses. 
A  sub-committee,  of  which  Mrs.  Samuel  W.  Miller  was 
a  most  active  member,  secured  permission  from  the  city 
to  fit  up  a  part  of  the  old  South  Side  Market  House  for 
public  baths,  and  Councils  appropriated  $7,000  therefor, 
but  the  Committee  had  succeeded  in  so  interesting  the 
late  Mr.  Henry  W.  Oliver  in  the  subject  that  he  proposed 
to  the  city  that  he  should  erect,  equip  and  donate  a 
large  public  bath ;  and  as  this  proposed  structure  was 
to  be  in  close  proximity  to  the  Market  House  location, 
the  latter  project  was  abandoned  at  the  request  of  the 
Committee.  Mr.  Oliver  died  before  his  plans  were  con- 
summated. 

On  December  16th,  1903,  the  Committee  wrote  a 
letter  to  Councils  asking  for  an  appropriation  of  $25,000 
toward  the  erection  of  a  bath  house,  pledging  itself  to 
raise  another  $25,000.     After  some  rat'her  active  educa- 


44  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

tional  campaign  work  and  an  appearance  before  the 
Finance  Committee  of  Councils  to  urge  the  merits  of  the 
undertaking,  the  requested  appropriation  was  made  in 
February,  1904. 

The  Soho  district  had  been  designated  in  the  appro- 
priating ordinance  as  the  location,  and  after  a  long  and 
careful  canvas,  and  acting  under  the  advice  of  the  City 
Controller  and  City  Engineer,  the  present  location  was 
purchased  at  a  cost  of  $15,500. 

The  lot  first  purchased  had  a  frontage  of  96  feet  on 
Fifth  Avenue  with  a  depth  of  about  82  feet,  and  had 
erected  thereon  a  large  and  substantial  three-story 
frame  building  which  it  was  later  decided  to  retain  for 
settlement  house  purposes.  This  necessitated  the  pur- 
chase of  more  ground  for  the  bath  building  and  Councils 
were  therefore  asked,  in  December,  1905,  for  an  addi- 
tional appropriation  of  $10,000  to  meet  this,  and  in  Feb- 
ruary 1906,  this  appropriation  was  made. 

The  purchase  of  this  additional  lot  (24  feet  on  Fifth 
Avenue  and  running  through  to  Forbes  Street),  caused 
considerable  delay  in  starting  building  operations,  as 
the  sale  was  not  finally  consummated  until  midsummer  of 
1907.  This  lot  cost  $3,600,  but  involved  the  additional 
expense  of  buying  out  two  parties  who  owned  sjnall 
houses,  and  a  ground  rent — making  the  total  expenditure 
for  this  strip  something  over  $4,200.  The  entire  cost  of 
the  land  bought,  including  the  purdiase  of  these  ground 
rents  and  other  expenses  incident  to  transfers,  etc.,  and 
also  including  the  substantial  building  used  for  settle- 
ment purposes,  thus  approximates  $31,000 — a  most  rea- 
sonable sum  for  the  amount  of  ground  in  that  locality, 
and  as  the  committee  is  advised  and  believes,  a  most 
judicious  purchase  and  an  excellent  location. 

On  April  4th,  1904,  Councils  approved  and  adopted 
a  resolution  presented  by  the  Civic  Club,  giving  the 
Club  control  of  the  property — the  title  to  which  had 
been  vested  in  the  City  in  return  for  the  appropriations 
made  and  to  be  made. 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  45 

On  February  11,  1905,  Councils  passed  an  ordinance 
authorizing  the  Civic  Club  to  build  and  perpetually 
use  all  buildings  erected  on  the  property  "for  bath  and 
other  philanthropic  purposes". 

The  large  joint  committee,  after  the  starting  of  the 
Soho  project,  deeming  that  one  new  bath  at  a  time  was 
all  it  could  manage,  suspended  efforts  to  locate  others 
throughout  the  city,  and  finding  itself  too  large  and  un- 
wieldy a  body  to  conduct,  as  a  whole,  the  business  inci- 
dent to  building  operations,  organized  the  Soho  Bath 
Board,  which  held  its  first  meeting  as  such  on  April  28, 
1905.  This  Board  was  composed  of  23  members,  five  of 
whom  were  ex-officio,  viz..  President  of  the  Civic  Club, 
President  of  the  Permanent  Civic  Committee,  the  Mayor 
and  Presidents  of  Select  and  Common  Councils,  respec- 
tively. The  other  members  of  the  joint  committee  then 
turned  their  energies  to  enlarging  the  small  but  growing 
settlement  work  already  established  in  the  house  on  the 
premises.  The  Bath  Board  was,  under  an  agreement  be- 
tween the  Permanent  Civic  Committee  and  the  Civic 
Club,  to  be  jointly  elected  by  the  two  associations,  but 
the  joint  management  and  conduct  of  the  business  being 
found  inconvenient  (the  Civic  Club  being  a  chartered 
organization,  the  other  an  unchartered,  variable  body 
with  a  membership  extending  into  other  counties),  this 
agreement  was  annulled  by  mutual  consent,  in  Febru- 
ary, 1908,  and  the  entire  ownership,  management  and 
control  of  the  Baths  is  now  in  this  Club.  But  the  Civic  Club 
gladly  acknowledges  its  indebtedness  to  the  women's 
clubs  for  the  successful  launching  and  completion  of  this 
undertaking,  from  the  membership  of  which  clubs  some 
of  the  most  active  workers  were  drawn,  and  a  number 
w'hereof  have  given  financial  assistance,  among  them 
being  (named  in  the  order  of  the  sizes  of  their  respec- 
tive contributions) — the  New  Era,  Wimodausus,  Soro- 
sis,  Travelers,  Colloquium,  Twentieth  Century,  Colum- 
bian Council  of  Jewish  Women,  and  the  Civic  Club  of 
Wilkinsburg. 


46  Civic  Club  op  Allegheny  County 

At  the  inception  of  this  undertaking,  the  Committee, 
never  having-  built  a  bath  house,  and  being  composed  of 
neither  real  estate  agents  nor  plumbers,  and  guided 
somewhat  by  the  cost  of  the  People's  Baths  (built  in 
1897),  started  out  with  the  somewhat  indefinite  hope 
that  $50,000  might  possibly  finance  it;  which  hope,  'how- 
ever, was  quickly  blasted.  As  soon  as  it  began  to  look 
for  a  site  and  talk  with  architects  and  builders,  it  was 
found  that  it  would  require  at  least  double  that  sum, — 
not  only  land  values  but  building  materials,  and 
especially  plumber's  supplies,  'having  increased  enor- 
mously since  the  Club's  first  bath  building  was  erected. 
The  Committee  also  found  that  while  Pittsburgh  is  full 
of  generous  people  who  give  freely  and  even  lavishly  to 
projects  that  appeal  to  their  sympathies,  these  were  slow 
to  realize  the  necessity  for  public  baths  and  their  value 
as  one  of  the  strongest  factors  in  the  making  of  good 
citizens,  and  the  task  of  raising  the  money  became  a 
serious  one ;  the  more  so  because  the  idea  largely  pre- 
vailed that  such  institutions  should  be  built  entirely  at 
the  expense  of  the  city,  rather  than  by  private  subscrip- 
tion. Several  architects  submitted  plans,  one  was  select- 
ed, and  the  contract  let,  after  competitive  bidding,  in 
the  early  part  of  1907  for  a  building  to  cost  upwards  of 
$70,000.  In  December  of  that  year  Councils  were  again 
asked  to  appropriate  $25,000  to  the  fund,  which  was 
done  in  February,  1908. 

In  August,  1909,  the  building  and  its  equipment  was 
complete  (with  the  exception  of  the  plunge — which  is 
still  unfinished)  and  opened  to  the  public. 

It  is  a  beautiful  cream-colored  brick  and  terra  cotta 
building,  fronting  three  stories  on  Fifth  Avenue,  five 
stories  in  the  rear,  and  with  an  added  entrance  from 
Forbes  Street.  The  first  floor  contains  40  showers  and 
4  tubs,  men's  and  women's  waiting  rooms  and  toilet 
rooms;  the  second  floor  comprising  a  living  apartment 
for  the  Superintendent,  a  Director's  room,  and  a  large 
assembly  hall  which  is  used  for  neighborhood  entertain- 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  47 

ments.  On  the  third  floor  are  two  apartments  which 
may  be  used  either  as  living  rooms  by  the  attendants  or 
for  settlement  classes,  adult  reading  rooms,  and  the  like; 
in  the  basement  are  two  needle  baths,  twelve  showers, 
two  tubs  for  children,  a  public  laundry  for  use  by  the 
women  of  the  neighborhood  who  have  no  facilities  for 
washing  and  drying  their  clothes  at  home,  a  private  laun- 
dry for  the  use  of  the  institution,and  the  boiler  room;  the 
sub-basement  contains  the  unfinished  swimming  pool, 
dressing  rooms  and  lockers,  constituting  as  a  whole,  one 
of  the  most  complete  bath  houses  in  the  country.  The 
committee  takes  a  most  justifiable  pride  in  the  fact  that 
it  has  been  built  and  equipped  at  a  cost  much  below  that 
of  similar  houses  in  other  cities.  The  plant  comprises  a 
large  lot  and  two  buildings ;  the  new  bath  house  and  the 
frame  settlement  house — the  cost  and  equipment  of 
which,  including  the  completion  of  the  pool  and  consid- 
erable building  of  outside  retaining  walls,  steps,  fences, 
etc.,  yet  to  be  done,  will  approximate  $120,000.  By  way 
of  comparison,  it  may  be  stated  that  New  York  in  1909 
had  seven  municipal  public  baths,  ranging  in  cost  from 
$91,500  to  $250,000,  exclusive  of  the  grounds,  the  aver- 
age cost  of  maintenance  being  given  as  $30,000  a  year 
for  each  one. 

Mr.  Gibson  D.  Packer,  the  Chairman  of  the  Build- 
ing Committee,  to  whom  a  special  vote  of  appreciation 
is  due  for  his  generous  contributions  to  the  enterprise  in 
the  way  of  ability,  time  and  money,  submits  the  follow- 
ing report  as  to  cost  to  date: 

"The  total  cost  of  land,  building  and  equipment  was 
$113,856.80,  distributed  as  follows: 

Cost  of  land,   $20,371.63 

"     building,    84,055.90 

"     equipment,    4,010.30 

"       "     improvement   Forbes  Street 

entrance 533.60 

"       "     Architect's    commissions,    .  ,     4,185.37 


48  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Cost  to  secure  release  from  tenants 
occupying  second  story  pur- 
chased in  ground  rent,   700.00 


Total, $113,856.80 

Of  the  amount  expended,  the  city  contributed  $65,- 
000,  a  part  of  its  appropriation  ($5,000,  made  in 
February,  1910)  having  been  used  for  maintenance.  The 
balance  was  raised  through  the  personal  efforts  of  the 
Bath  Board,  by  means  of  entertainments  and  contribu- 
tions from  generous  friends — in  sums  varying  from 
$5.00  up  to  $10,000.  Among  the  largest  contributors  of 
$500  and  upwards  were  Andrew  Carnegie,  Jones  and 
Laughlin,  the  National  Tube  Company,  Mrs.  C.  L. 
Magee,  H.  C.  Frick,  Gibson  D.  Packer,  Howard  H.  Mc- 
Clintic  and  wife,  John  B.  Jackson,  Mrs.  William  Thaw, 
Robert  C.  Hall  and  Norwood  Johnston. 

The  finances  of  the  enterprise  were  most  capably 
handled  by  Mrs.  Gilliford  B.  Sweeny,  the  Treasurer  of 
the  Bat'h  Board,  and  so  carefully  husbanded  that 
$2,288.56  was  added  thereto  by  way  of  interest  on  de- 
posits. 

Of  the  present  Board,  the  following  have  been  ac- 
tive members  since  its  organization :  Mr.  J.  Boyd  Duff 
(who  was  elected  as  Chairman  in  November,  1905),  Mr. 
Gibson  D.  Packer,  Chairman  of  Building  Committee,  Mr. 
Robert  C.  Hall,  and  Mrs.  Gilliford  B.  Sweeny,  Treasurer, 
Mrs.  Franklin  P.  lams.  Secretary,  Mrs.  Alfred  Long- 
more,  Chairman  of  House  Committee.  Mrs.  Samuel  L. 
Seymour,  Mrs.  Enoch  Rauh  and  Mrs.  George  B. 
Motheral,  Mrs.  William  H.  Carothers  and  Mrs.  S.  L. 
Fleis'hman  also  having  been  elected  to  the  Board  within 
a  very  short  time  after  its  organization,  all  of  these, 
as  well  as  several  who  have  had  to  resign,  and  those 
who  have  come  in  to  take  their  places  from  time  to  time, 
have  been  assiduous  workers. 

The   Superintendent   reports  the  following  number 


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of  baths  from  date  of  entry,  August  1,  1909,  to  Novem- 
ber 1,  1910. 

Men,    38,432 

Women,    1,623 

Girls,    .    ' 482 

Boys,    1,630 

Free,    3,359 

Total  Baths 45,536 

Number  of  women  using  laundry, 581 

Number  of  hours  the  laundry  was  used, 2050 

While  the  Civic  Club  wishes  that  it  might  have 
financed  this  enterprise  without  calling  upon  Councils 
after  the  first  appropriation,  and  while  it  fiilly  appre- 
ciates the  way  in  w'hich  Councils  have  recognized  the 
importance  of  the  work  by  so  cheerfully  responding  to 
every  call  made  upon  them,  the  Club  has  no  apology  to 
ofifer  for  making  these  calls.  These  appropriations  were 
made  to  the  city,  not  to  the  Civic  Club,  through  whose 
efforts,  aided  by  an  enlig^htened  Councils  and  by  many 
generous,  public  spirited  friends  (to  all  of  whom  the 
Club  and  its  Baths  Committee  hereby  tender  their  sin- 
cere thanks),  one  more  public  bathing  place  has  been 
added  to  the  number  it  is  hoped  may  soon  be  erected 
throughout  the  city. 

A  report  of  the  activities  of  this  Bath  Committee 
would  not  be  complete  without  mention  of  the  work 
•  done  by  those  members  of  the  original  joint  committee 
who  were  not  made  members  of  the  Board  that  had  the 
new  building  in  charge,  and  who  turned  their  energies 
to  establishing  in  the  old  building  a  Settlement  House 
for  neighborhood  uses.  Among  the  earlier  workers  here, 
in  addition  to  Mesdames  Seymour  and  Longmore,  of  the 
Bath  Board,  were  Mesdames  George  Porter  (the  first 
chairman),  Dallas  Albert,  Jane  Hall,  L.  O.  Livingstone, 
Vitallius  Matthews,  James  C.  Dick,  (Resident  Secre- 
tary), Rufus  Martin,  Anna  R.  Stratton  and  J.  D.  Arnold 
(at  first  the  Secretary,  later  Chairman)  ;  some  of  whom 


50  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

'had  to  give  up  the  service  for  various  reasons,  but  a 
number  of  whom  have  worked  untiringly  for  all  these 
years  and  have  been  joined  by  other  able  volunteers 
such  as  Mesdames  W.  M.  Carothers,  Louis  C.  Sands,  J. 
Boyd  Duff,  E.  P.  Clark,  A.  B.  Shaw,  J.  F.  Shaffer,  and 
Emily  Keating.  This  is  a  most  prolific  field  for  settle- 
ment work,  and  these  volunteer  workers  are  already 
reaping  a  harvest  from  their  arduous  labors,  which  cover 
a  wide  range  of  endeavor. 

A  children's  branch  of  the  Carnegie  Library  is  lo- 
cated in  this  building,  and  numerous  classes  for  boys, 
girls  and  women  are  conducted.  This  settlement  work 
is  not  under  the  auspices  of  the  Civic  Club  further  than 
the  contribution  of  the  use  of  the  building  therefor;  but 
the  Club  bespeaks  for  it  a  generous  support. 


BLOCK  HOUSE     The  threatened  removal  or  destruc- 
1902  tion  of  the  Block  House     in     1902, 

against  which  the  Pittsburgh  Chap- 
ter of  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  waged  a 
most  vigorous  and  successful  campaign,  aroused  the  in- 
dignation of  the  various  patriotic  and  local  organiza- 
tions, and  the  Civic  Club  among  them  protested  against 
the  commercial  inroads  designed  to  obliterate  the  city's 
most  historical  relic.  This  monument  was  later  donated 
by  the  owner  of  the  property,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Schenley, 
to  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  will 
be  preserved  to  the  people  of  Pittsburgh  for  all  time. 


RAILROAD  ORDINANCES     A     great      effort      was 
1902  made  to     prevent     the 

passage  of  special  rail- 
road ordinances  permitting  the  erection  of  freight  sta- 
tions and  terminals  at  the  "Point",  followed  a  year  later 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  51 

-by  a  spirited  encounter  with  Councils  upon  the  passage 
of  the  ordinances  permitting  the  erection  of  tracks  on 
Duquesne  Way.  These  protests  were  entered,  not  only 
for  the  purpose  of  preventing  further  congestion  in  this 
portion  of  the  city,  but  because  it  would  forever  destroy 
any  plan  that  might  at  some  future  date  be  adopted  to 
beautify  the  wharves  and  to  utilize  them  as  public 
breathing  spots  for  down-town  residents,  remote  from 
the  public  parks.  Utilitarian  considerations,  complicated 
by  questions  of  expediency  in  the  "compromise"  with 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  whereby  the  latter's  tracks 
were  forever  removed  from  the  disfigurement  of  Liberty 
Avenue,  nullified  this  agitation.  (See  Trains  on  Liberty 
Street,  1904.) 


LECTURES  IN  With  the  beginning  of  the  year 

PUBLIC  SCHOOLS    1902,  the  Department  of  Educa- 
1902  tion,  Mrs.  George     H.     Wilson, 

Chairman,  arranged  a  course  of 
lectures  in  the  evenings  in  the  public  schools,  most  of 
them  illustrated  by  stereopticon  slides.  Following  a  lec- 
ture by  Prof.  Charles  Zeublin  in  March, a  series  of  fifteen 
were  given,  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Francis  H.  Wade. 
These  lectures  were  delivered  in  five  schools,  the  3rd 
Ward,  Allegheny,  Thaddeus  Stevens,  Friendship,  Wool- 
slair,  and  Bane,  in  a  series  of  one  or  more  for  three 
weeks  in  each  school.  The  great  success  of  this  under- 
taking was  due  to  the  interesting  subjects  and  the  valu- 
able services  of  Dr.  Wade,  with  Prof.  Brashear,  Dr.  Hol- 
land, Dr.  McAllister  and  Rev.  T.  J.  Leak. 


LECTURES  IN  The  enthusiasm  and  popular  de- 

PUBLIC  SCHOOLS     mand  for     a     repetition     of     the 
1903  series  of  lectures  given  the  year 

previous   in  the   public     schools 
prompted  the  Educational  Department,  with  Mrs.  J.  J. 


52  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Covert,  Chairman  of  the  Committee,  to  give  eighteen 
more  lectures  during  1903.  Dr.  F.  H.  Wade,  Mr.  Fred- 
erick S.  Webster,  Dr.  Breed,  Mr.  Robert  McGonnigle, 
Drs.  Holmes  Miller  and  G.  W.  Allyn,  most  efficiently- 
contributed  to  this  co'urse  which  was  arranged  in  groups 
of  six  schools — the  Franklin,  So'ho,  Woolslair,  Bane, 
Allen  and  the  5th  Ward,  Allegheny,  with  three  lectures 
in  each  school.  The  Civic  Club  and  the  various  School 
Directors  were  hig^hly  gratified  with  the  results  of  the 
lectures,  the  attendance,  character  of  the  people  and  evi- 
dent pleasure  of  the  auditors.  This  work  was  discon- 
tinued after  the  second  year,  but  in  1909  was  again  re- 
sumed in  connection  with  the  social  center  work  of  the 
Pittsburgh  Playgrounds  Association. 


TENEMENT  HOUSE  While  the  Civic  Club  almost 
REFORM  from  its  inception    'had     been 

1903  deeply  interested  in,  and  seek- 

ing a  solution  of,  the  problem 
of  the  tenement  dweller  that  is  presented  in  all  large  com- 
munity centers  and  especially  in  Pittsburgh,  it  was  not 
until  December  of  1902  that  the  first  practical  remedial 
step  was  taken  by  the  Club  Tenement  Committee,  of 
which  Mrs.  Franklin  P.  lams  was  at  that  time  made 
Chairman,  by  the  decision  to  strike  at  the  root  of  the 
evil  and  make  it  imperative  that  all  tenement  buildings 
conform  to  certain  specified  sanitary  requirements. 

Philadelphia  already  had  a  meagre  tenement  law, 
passed  in  1895,  which  it  was  thought  desirable  not  to 
tamper  with  at  that  time.  It  was  therefore  deemed  ad- 
visable to  present  a  Tenement  House  Bill  relating  to 
cities  of  the  second  class  only — prominent  Philadel- 
phians  undertaking  to  enlist  the  legislative  support  of 
their  members,  which  they  did. 

With  the  comprehensive  tenement  laws  of  New 
York    and    Chicago   and    the    invaluable    suggestions    of 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  53 

'  Mr.  Lawrence  Vieller  and  Mr.  Hector  Mcintosh  of 
Philadelphia,  (a  very  active  member  of  the  Octavia 
Hill  Tenement  Association  v^ho  for  many  months  w^as 
in  active  correspondence  with  the  Club  Chairman)  as 
guides,  the  Committee  consisting  of  Mrs.  lams,  Mr.  E. 
Z.  Smith,  and  Hon.  S.  S.  Mehard  drew  up  two  measures 
which  now,  as  supplemented  by  one  or  two  ordinances, 
constitute  Pittsburgh's  Tenement  House  Laws.  It  was 
deemed  wise  to  make  these  Bills  amendments  to  the 
Bureaus  of  Health  and  Building  Inspection  laws,  and 
two  Bills  were  therefore  prepared,  one  relating  to  each 
Bureau.  These  Bills  were  presented  simultaneously  in 
the  Senate  by  William  A.  Magee  and  in  the  House  by 
J.  P.  Moore,  in  February,  1903,  and  so  expeditiously 
pressed  that  they  were  passed  in  March,  and  signed  by 
the  Governor  in  April. 

Immediately  following  the  signing  of  the  Bills,  the 
Committee  secured  the  passage  of  a  councilmanic  ordi- 
nance providing  two  Tenement  House  Inspectors,  this 
small  number  being  requested  because  it  was  after  the 
annual  appropriation  had  been  made  and  only  a  limited 
amount  of  money  was  available  for  salaries. 

In  recognition  of  the  work  of  the  Club,  Mayor 
Hays  requested  it  to  name  one  of  these  two  Inspectors, 
and  it  was  fortunate  in  being  able  to  name  Dr.  Luba 
N.  Robin,  who  was  made  Chief  Inspector  by  Director 
of  Public  Safety  Harry  Moore,  and  by  him  sent  to  New 
York  to  study  its  system  of  tenement  inspection.  As 
that  city  had  a  tenement  house  force  approximating  two 
hundred,  and  she  had  but  one  assistant.  Dr.  Robin 
could  naturally  make  small  headway  toward  establish- 
ing a  similiar  system.  She,  however,  accomplished  very 
wonderful  results  in  the  way  of  developing  a  plan,  in- 
specting and  listing  in  the  first  year  over  3,200  houses, 
of  which  250  were  found  to  be  tenements  under  the  law 
(i.  e.,  a  house  in  which  three  or  more  families  live  and 
cook  on  the  premises),  most  of  them  violating  the  pro- 
visions thereof. 


54  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

At  approximately  the  same  time  as  the  passage  of 
the  Pittsburgh  ordinance  for  the  appointment  of  two 
inspectors,  the  committee  had  a  similar  ordinance  passed 
in  Allegheny,  which  ordinance  was  most  unexpectedly 
accompanied  by  a  resolution  stipulating  that  the  Civic 
Club  s'hould  name  the  inspectors,  which,  however,  it 
did  not  do.  This  gave  to  what  is  now  Greater  Pitts- 
burgh four  such  officers — an  absurdly  small  number  for 
so  large  a  territory. 

At  the  beginning  of  1904  the  Club  committee  asked 
the  Committee  on  Appropriations  to  provide  for  ten 
more  inspectors,  later  modifying  the  request  to  two,  but 
lacking  the  support  of  both  Mayor  Hays  and  Director 
Moore,  the  request  was  not  granted. 

In  1905  Director  Moore  urged  the  Club  not  to  pre- 
sent an  ordinance  for  more  inspectors,  stating  that  out 
of  the  appropriations  asked  for  by  him  that  year  he 
would  be  able  to  pay  two  more  inspectors,  which  he 
deemed  sufficient  at  that  time.  The  Club  reluctantly 
yielded  the  point,  and  did  not  itself  present  an  ordinance 
asking  for  more  inspectors  until  after  the  failure  of  the 
Finance  Committee  of  Councils  to  recommend  a  specific 
sum  therefor  in  the  appropriation  for  1905.  Following 
this,  early  in  the  same  year,  the  Club  asked  for  three 
additional  inspectors  and  in  March  an  ordinance  was 
passed  providing  for  two ;  which  ordinance  Mayor 
Hays — still  unconvinced  that  Pittsburgh's  tenement  dis- 
tricts needed  inspecting — promptly  vetoed.  It  was  now 
necessary  to  present  the  ordinance  again  to  the  new 
Councils,  which  was  done  and  the  ordinance  was 
again  passed  in  the  early  summer  of  1906,  thus  giv- 
ing to  what  is  now  Greater  Pittsburgh  six  inspectors. 

With  the  new  city  administration  of  1906  came  Dr. 
J.  F.  Edwards  as  Superintendent  of  the  Bureau  of 
Health,  who,  as  soon  as  he  grasped  the  full  magnitude 
and  the  gravity  of  Pittsburgh's  tenement  problem,  thor- 
oughly systematized  the  work  (especially  when  given 
more   inspectors)    and    inaugurated   an   aggressive    cam- 


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paign  of  betterment.  He,  however,  quite  earnestly  op- 
posed the  Club's  urging  Councils  to  provide  for  an  in- 
cieaed  force  of  inspectors  in  the  appropriation  for  1907. 

The  Club  had  been  conducting  a  very  energetic  and 
comprehensive  campaign  of  education  as  to  the  necessity 
for  more  inspectors  and  finally  won  Controller  Larkin 
to  its  views  and  fully  believed  the  time  ripe  for  the 
attempt,  and  with  the  greatest  reluctance  refrained 
from  asking  it. 

In  the  fall  of  that  year,  stirred  to  action  by  a  start- 
lingly  plain  statement  as  to  conditions  in  Pittsburgh's 
tenement  districts  by  that  most  fearless  and  intrepid 
social  worker,  William  H.  Matthews,  of  Kingsley 
House,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  made  a  vigorous  and 
successful  campaign  for  more  inspectors  and  in  the  win- 
ter (1907-8)  the  force  was  increased  from  six  to  thirteen 
and  has  since  been  further  added  to  until  it  now  num- 
bers seventeen,  which  is  still  considered  inadequate, 
even  though  the  tenement  inspectors  and  sanitary  in- 
spectors to  a  large  extent  co-operate  in  their  work. 

Reverting  again  to  other  efforts :  the  Committee 
made  numerous  attempts  to  secure  the  co-operation  of 
other  organizations,  as  well  as  the  public  at  large,  and 
in  the  spring  of  1905  invited  representatives  of  all  the 
philanthropic  associations  and  c'hurches  and  a  number  of 
leading  citizens  to  a  conference  with  a  two-fold  purpose : 
firstly,  to  secure  more  inspectors  to  enforce  the  laws  we 
already  had  (which  were  never  intended  by  the  Civic 
Club  Committee  as  other  than  temporary  or  tentative), 
and  secondly,  to  secure  co-operation  in  securing  proper 
data  and  preparing  a  code  therefrom  for  submission  to 
the  next  Legislature.  The  meeting  was  largely  attended 
and  apparently  most  enthusiastic,  and  resulted  in  the  ap- 
pointment of  two  committees ;  one  for  the  first  named 
object,  comprised  principally  of  Civic  Club  members, 
which  continued  its  campaign  for  more  inspectors,  the 
other  composed  of  gentlemen  so  eminent  and  busy  as  to 


56  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

find  it  impossible  to  fulfill  the  duties  of  their  appoint- 
ment. 

In  the  fall  of  1906,  the  Committee  made  another 
effort  to  secure  co-operation,  and  arranged  for  a  confer- 
ence between  Mayor  Guthrie  and  representatives  from 
the  Bureau  of  Health,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Kingsley 
House,  Columbian  Council,  Pittsburgh  Playgrounds 
Association,  Allegheny  County  Medical  Association,  the 
Civic  Club  and  perhaps  a  few  others.  At  this  conference 
the  Mayor  was  asked  to  advocate  the  appointment  of  a 
councilmanic  commission  to  investigate  tenement  condi- 
tions and  draw  up  a  comprehensive  bill  for  the  Legisla- 
ture of  1907.  The  suggestion  did  not  appeal  to  him, 
however,  and  the  matter  was  dropped.  But  the  Club 
Committee,  consisting  at  that  time  of  Mrs.  lams  and 
Mr.  E.  Z.  Smith,  in  consultation  with  Dr.  Edwards  of 
the  Bureau  of  Health,  Superintendent  Dies,  of  the  Bu- 
reau of  Building  Inspection,  and  Superintendent  Carver, 
of  the  Bureau  of  Plumbing  Inspection,  revised  the  laws 
of  1903,  adding  such  amendments  thereto  as  their  appli- 
cation had  demonstrated  as  most  desirable — one  of  the 
important  additions  requiring  registration  by  owners  of 
tenements  of  all  such  properties,  together  with  name 
and  address  of  the  owner  or  his  agent.  This  amended 
Bill  was  introduced  in  the  Senate  by  Senator  Langfitt  on 
January  29th,  1907,  quickly  passed  by  that  body  and 
sent  to  the  House,  where  no  opposition  was  anticipated, 
but  it  was  unexpectedly  held  up  in  the  House  Commit- 
tee, and,  by  the  time  the  cause  was  ascertained  and  re- 
moved, the  session  was  nearly  over  and  the  measure  did 
not  reach  a  vote.  Some  months  afterward  the  city  ad- 
ministration secured  the  passage  of  an  ordinance  requir- 
ing registration  by  owners,  which  has  proven  of  great 
value  in  the  work. 

The  attempt  to  secure  amendments  was  not  re- 
newed in  1909 — it  being  deemed  wise  to  wait  the  pas- 
sage of  a  general  revision  of  the  Building  Laws  of  the 
city.     But  the   Chairman  of  the  Committee  noted  the  in- 


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troduction  of  a  Bill  modifying  the  requirement  that  all 
tenements  over  three  stories  high  must  be  fireproof, — 
an  amendment  that  did  not  strike  the  Superintendent  of 
Building  Inspection  and  some  other  city  officials  as 
dangerous,  but  which  was  declared  by  many  leading  con- 
tractors and  builders  who  were  interviewed  to  be  a  very 
decided  backward  step.  Several  of  these  men  volun- 
teered to  go  to  Harrisburg  and  oppose  its  passage,  but 
quieter  means  were  found  to  suppress  the  measure. 

The  Committee  (Mr.  Cornelius  D.  Scully  acting  as 
Chairman)  in  the  winter  of  1910  again  called  a  confer- 
ence of  interested  associations  with  a  view  of  drafting  a 
Bill  for  the  session  of  1911,  but  learning  that  a  Sanitary 
Code  was  in  process  of  preparation  by  the  city,  which, 
if  passed  by  Councils,  might  obviate  the  necessity  of 
further  laws,  postponed  action  until  such  Code  should 
be  presented  to  and  acted  upon  by  Councils. 

Again  chronologically  reverting:  Dr.  Robin,  the 
first  Chief  Inspector  named  by  the  Club  was  married  in 
March,  1905,  and  the  Club  was  requested  by  Director 
Moore  to  name  'her  successor,  and  Mrs.  Samuel  W.  Har- 
per was  appointed  and  served  eiTiciently  for  two  years, 
when  she  resigned.  The  Civic  Club  was  again  asked  to 
suggest  a  chief  inspector — this  time  by  Director  Ridge- 
way,  who  had  succeeded  Director  Moore.  For  several 
months  Mrs.  lams  endeavored  to  find  a  suitable  party 
for  the  position  (every  applicant  being  referred  by  the 
Department  to  her),  but  was  unable  unqualifiedly  to 
recommend  anyone  who  was  willing  to  accept  the  place 
at  the  salary  paid — $100  a  month — and  so  reported  to 
the  department,  whereupon  Mr.  Steineck,  who  had 
proven  a  very  capable  inspector  and  had  been  acting  as 
temporary  chief  during  the  efifort  to  find  another,  was 
made  chief  inspector  in  the  late  summer  of  1907,  which 
position  he  still  fills. 

During  the  four  years  that  the  ofifice  was  held  by 
the  appointee  suggested  by  the  Civic  Club,  the  c'hief 
inspector  was  in  almost  daily  conference  with  the  Chair- 


58  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

man  of  the  Club  Committee,  and  full  statements  of  the 
progress  of  the  work  were  made  monthly  to  the  Board. 
After  the  resignation  of  Mrs.  Harper,  the  Club  did  not 
keep  in  suc'h  close  touch  with  the  administration  of  the 
law,  and  it  was  no  longer  necessary  that  it  should — the 
system  being  by  that  time  well  established  and  under 
the  personal  supervision  of  Dr.  Edwards,  who,  however, 
continued  of  his  own  accord  to  make  full  reports  to  the 
Club  at  frequent  intervals.  After  the  change  of  the  city 
administration  in  the  spring  of  1909  and  the  transfer- 
ence of  Dr.  Edwards  to  another  Bureau,  no  reports  have 
been  sent  to  the  Club,  doubtless  because  the  requests 
therefor  have  not  been  strongly  pressed.  It  is,  however, 
certainly  due  to  the  public  that  frequent  reports  of  the 
work  of  this  and  other  city  departments  be  printed  and 
distributed — a  duty  in  which  the  City  of  Pittsburgh  is 
and  always  has  been  singularly  and  inexcusably  remiss. 
Pittsburgh  still  has  a  tenement  problem — a  problem 
that  is  particularly  difficult  because  of  the  thousands  of 
old  buildings  that  should  be  demolished ;  a  problem  in 
which  one  and  two  family  houses  figure  as  largely  as 
those  legally  termed  "tenements" ;  a  problem  in  which 
both  landlords  and  tenants  are  factors,  and  that  demands 
the  help  of  men  and  women  of  wisdom  for  its  solution. 
That  Pittsburgh  has  laws  that  would,  if  fully  enforced, 
go  far  toward  the  solution  of  that  problem  is  due,  more 
than  to  any  other  thing,  to  the  practical  foresight,  the 
patience,  tact  and  perserverance  of  Mrs.  lams,  who  for 
five  or  six  years  gave  so  unstintedly  of  her  time  and 
strength  to  this  work,  and  whose  interest  in  and  desire 
for  further  and  more  radical  betterment  is  unabated; 
and  the  Club  desires  to  here  record  its  appreciation  of 
her  service  in  this  cause. 


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TRAVELING  LIBRARIES     In     1903     and     1904     an 
1903  effort     was     made     by  a 

committee  under  Mrs.  S. 
M.  B.  Hooker  to  establish  Traveling  Libraries  for  the 
use  of  citizens  in  small  towns.  Every  effort  was  made 
to  have  the  small  towns  apply  for  the  libraries,  letters 
were  sent  to  representative  citizens  in  the  endeavor  to 
interest  them  and  to  invite  them  to  attend  the  meetings, 
held  once  every  three  weeks.  Through  Mrs.  W.  L. 
Davis,  a  member  of  the  committee,  50  volumes  were  se- 
cured from  the  State  Library  at  Harrisburg  for  Glen- 
s'haw.  Pa.  This  library  was  located  at  the  public  school, 
and  books  distributed  to  the  children  at  the  discretion 
of  the  principal  and  teachers.  At  the  end  of  six  months 
the  library  was  returned  to  Harrisburg.  The  next  fall 
a  public  library,  which  at  this  date  numbers  1000,  was 
started  by  and  continues  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Glenshaw  Civic  Club. 


FORESTRY     The  Forestry  Committee  under  the  De- 
1904  partment  of  Art  has  been,   since   its   in- 

ception as  part  of  the  Civic  Club  work 
in  1904,  under  the  Chairmanship  of  Miss  Helen  Grimes. 
It  has  been  difficult  and  uphill  work,  its  very  beginning 
overshadowed  by  the  enormous  amount  of  work  that 
could  be  done,  and  the  lack  of  funds  with  which  to  start 
it.  Frequent  reminders  were  sent  by  the  Chairman  to 
the  departments  of  both  cities  to  enforce  the  law  fining 
drivers  for  permitting  horses  to  injure  the  bark  of  trees 
and  urging  them  to  employ  some  one  to  look  after  the 
trees  planted  in  the  streets,  protecting  them  from  insect 
pests  and  other  enemies.  In  1905  a  number  of  very  in- 
teresting illustrated  articles  were  written  by  Miss 
Grimes  and  published  in  the  daily  and  weekly  news- 
papers, showing  not  only  how  Pittsburg  could  be  beau- 
tified by  trees  planted  in  the  streets,  but  also  directing 


60  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

attention  to  the  incongruous  planting  and  the  manner 
in  which  street  trees  were  pruned. 

The  Chairman  of  this  committee  has  most  per- 
sistenly  preached  the  gospel  of  tree-planting  and  pres- 
ervation, and  encouraged  the  women's  clubs  to  hold 
yearly  tree-plantings  with  appropriate  ceremonies  as 
educative  measures. 


TRAINS  ON  A    report    of    the    number    and 

LIBERTY  STREET      time  of  trains  crossing  Liberty 
1904  Avenue,   at    Market   and    Sixth, 

from  January  4th  to  31st,  1904, 
gives  evidence  that  the  Civic  Club  was  taking  part  in 
the  agitation  that  led  to  the  removal  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  tracks  from  Liberty  Avenue.  The  record  shows 
that  seventy-five  trains  passed  the  above  mentioned  cor- 
ner between  the  hours  of  8.15  A.  M.  and  6.15  P.  M.  dur- 
ing that  month. 

The  grade  crossing  was  a  matter  for  serious  atten- 
tion not  only  in  Pittsburgh  proper  but  in  Allegheny, 
and  it  was  only  after  great  pressure  was  brought  to  bear 
upon  the  railroad  companies  and  Councils  that  they 
have  been  practically  abolished. 


COURT  HOUSE         The  Art     Department     was     not 
ALTERATIONS  only  keenly  alive  to     the     possi- 

1904  bilities  of  beautifying  the  city  by 

the  care  and  planting  of  trees, 
but  as  far  back  as  1904  at  an  open  meeting  urged  upon 
the  County  Commissioners,  who  had  proposed  to  en- 
large the  County  Court  House,  that  any  exterior  altera- 
tions would  likely  destroy  or  at  least  detract  from  the 
artistic  beauty  and  simplicity  of  this  building.  Each 
suggestion  that  has  been  made  by  various  architects  or 


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by  the  Commissioners  to  enlarge  the  Court  House  by 
adding-  anywhere  from  three  to  forty  stories  has  been 
met  with  a  storm  of  opposition  not  only  from  the  Civic 
Club  but  the  architects'  associations  and  numerous  other 
clubs  and  individuals.  Be  it  said  to  the  great  credit  of 
the  Commissioners  of  1910  that  they  have  solved  the 
problem  in  a  most  satisfactory  manner  from  an  artistic 
and  economic  standpoint  by  deciding  to  purchase  an 
additional  adjacent  square  for  the  proposed  improve- 
ment. 


COMMITTEE  ON         In  the  past  five  years  the  fight 
TUBERCULOSIS  against  tuberculosis  'has     made 

1905  wonderful   progress     in      Pitts- 

burgh. At  the  time  the  Civic 
Club  took  up  the  matter,  there  was  no  other  organiza- 
tion in  the  city  doing  any  special  work  directed  toward 
the  prevention  and  elimination  of  this  dread  disease. 
The  Anti-Tuberculosis  Committee  of  the  Civic  Club 
was  appointed  in  1905,  with  Dr.  T.  W.  Grayson,  Chair- 
man, and  found  immediate  work  in  appearing  before  the 
appropriations  committee  of  council  and  urging  that 
$5,000  be  given  for  the  establishment  of  a  tuberculosis 
camp  in  connection  with  the  City  Poor  Farm  at  Mar- 
shalsea.  The  number  of  cases  then  was  found  to  be 
alarming,  and  the  immediate  necessity  for  some  remedial 
measure  imperative.  The  Committee's  activity  was  re- 
warded by  the  passage  of  the  ordinance.  Through  t'he 
courtesy  of  Dr.  J.  P.  Shaw,  then  Director  of  Charities, 
this  committee  visited  Marshalsea  in  May,  1905,  and 
assisted  in  the  selection  of  the  site  for  the  "Hill  Camp" 
at  the  City  Farm.  One  well  equipped  wooden  building 
was  completed  as  soon  as  possible.  This  pavillion  is 
only  for  males,  and  has  a  capacity  of  some  eighteen  or 
twenty.  Following  this  successful  effort,  the  Committee 
endorsed   the  request  of   Dr.   Shaw     for  an     additional 


62  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

$5,000,  which  was  granted  for  similar  work  among  the 
female  patients  at  ]\Iarshalsea. 

This  committee  has  also  been  more  or  less  active 
in  other  tuberculosis  work  in  Pittsburgh.  Its  members 
took  an  active  part  in  the  formation  of  "the  Pittsburgh 
Society  for  the  Prevention  and  Treatment  of  Tuberculo- 
sis," and  through  the  efforts  of  the  chairman,  a  tuber- 
culosis clinic  was  opened  for  patients  at  the  Pittsburgh 
Free  Dispensary,  and  conducted  for  four  months. 

At  the  instance  of  one  of  the  resident  workers  at 
the  Columbian  Settlement  House,  a  tuberculosis  exhibit 
was  brought  to  Pittsburgh  in  May,  1907,  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  Pittsburgh  Society  for  the  Prevention  and 
Treatment  of  Tuberculosis  assisted  by  the  Columbian 
Council  and  the  Civic  Club.  The  Civic  Club  was  the 
headquarters  with  an  executive  secretary,  employed  to 
arrange  this  exhibit.  It  was  the  first  large  educational 
measure  that  was  undertaken  in  this  work  in  our  com- 
munity, and  many  thousands  visited  Old  City  Hall  in 
the  ten  days  it  was  there.  Later  the  Columbian  Settle- 
ment, Woods  Run,  South  Side,  West  End,  and  Wilkins- 
burg  in  turn  housed  the  exhibit. 

In  its  desire  not  to  everlap  or  duplicate  the  work  of 
the  new  Tuberculosis  League  which  started  at  about  this 
time,  the  committee  during  the  next  year  was  not  so  ac- 
tive. Plans,  however,  were  being  made  that  developed 
a  new  field  for  action.     (See  Open-Air  Schools,  1909.) 


MEDICAL  INSPECTION     Among     the     "significant 
1905  facts"    noted     by     Gulick 

and  Ayres  in  their  "Medi- 
cal Inspection  of  Schools"  is  an  extract  from  the  Memo- 
randum of  the  British  Board  of  Education  which  states 
Medical  Inspection  "seeks  to  secure  ultimately  for  every 
child,  normal  or  defective,  conditions  of  life  compatible 
with  that  full  and  effective  development  of  its  organic 
functions,  its  special  senses,  and  its  mental  powers, 
which  constitute  a  true  education". 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  63 

In  the  earlier  period  of  the  Civic  Club,  as  far  back 
as  1898,  the  Educational  Department  advised  the  neces- 
sity for  medical  inspection  in  the  schools,  but  it  was  not 
until  seven  years  later  that  any  active  steps  were  taken 
to  give  the  school  children  necessary  medical  attention 
in  many  cases  not  received  through  the  home,  to  insure 
the  physical  development  of  the  child  commensurate 
with  the  education  it  is  expected  to  receive. 

In  November,  1905,  the  Department  of  Education  of 
the  Civic  Club  initiated  the  campaign  for  medical  inspec- 
tion in  the  schools  through  its  newly  elected  chairman, 
Mrs.  William  Macrum,  to  whose  active,  faithful  and  effi- 
cient services  the  ultimate  success  of  this  movement  was 
largely  due. 

A  committee  was  at  once  appointed  to  interview 
school  directors,  who  in  most  cases  heartily  agreed  that 
medical  inspection  would  be  of  great  benefit  to  the 
schools ;  that  a  large  percentage  of  the  children  in  the 
public  schools  had  some  definite  physical  defect;  that  a 
considerable  portion  of  these  children  were  one,  two  or 
even  three  years  behind  in  their  grades  because  of  these 
defects ;  that  a  large  proportion  of  epidemics  and  the 
spread  of  communicable  diseases  emanated  from  the 
schools ;  but  who  added  that  they  had  no  funds  provided 
for  the  purpose. 

The  committee  then  decided  to  enlist  the  sympathy 
of  the  medical  profession  in  their  plan,  and  were  grati- 
fied beyond  their  hopes  by  the  generous  offer  of  several 
physicians  to  give  their  services  without  remuneration 
until  the  system  should  be  fairly  established.  In  the 
mean  time  the  Chairman  of  the  Department  had  in- 
quired of  the  City  Physician  as  to  the  advisability  of  be- 
ginning the  work  at  once  as  an  experiment,  and  he  had 
expressed  his  satisfaction  with  the  plan,  and  promised 
his  co-operation  at  some  future  time. 

The  first  inspection  took  place  in  December,  1905, 
at  the  Bellefield  School,  Dr.  Wholey,  who  later  served 
as  Chairman  of  the  Committee,  being  the  physician  in 


64  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

charge;  Mrs.  J.  L.  Francis,  a  member  of  the  committee 
from  the  Civic  Club,  acting  as  his  aid. 

The  report  of  this  first  inspection,  read  at  the 
next  meeting  of  the  committee,  deely  impressed  all  vvrho 
heard  it  and  convinced  them  that  the  introduction  of 
medical  inspection  w^ould  involve  no  serious  difficulty. 
The  Allegheny  County  Medical  Association  then  offered 
to  appoint  physicians  to  inspect  all  the  schools,  provided 
the  consent  of  the  respective  school  boards  could  be  ob- 
tained by  the  members  of  the  Civic  Club  committee.  Let- 
ters wrere  accordingly  sent  by  Mrs.  Macrum  to  fifty-one 
schools  boards,  including  schools  in  Pittsburgh,  Alle- 
gheny and  the  adjoining  suburbs.  Favorable  answers 
were  received  from  about  half  of  the  school  boards,  and 
Dr.  Matheny,  as  chairman  of  the  committee  appointed 
by  the  Allegheny  County  Medical  Association  to  co- 
operate with  the  Club,  had  the  work  begun  at  once  in 
several  schools.  Twenty-four  schools  were  inspected  by 
the  following  physicians.  Dr.  W.  F.  Donaldson — Grant 
School;  Dr.  Alice  R.  Evans— North  School;  Dr.  J.  P. 
Hegarty — Hancock  School ;  Dr.  R.  V.  Swanton — Ral- 
ston School ;  Dr.  P.  W.  Bushong — Moorhead  School ; 
Dr.  J.  M.  Russell— Springfield  School;  Dr.  M.  Chess— 
O'Hara  School;  Dr.  J.  G.  Burke — Minersville  School; 
Dr.  F.  A.  Rhodes— Minersville  No.  2;  Dr.  F.  A.  Holt— 
Minersville  No.  3;  Dr.  W.  H.  Glynn— Minersville  No. 
4;  Dr.  W.  H.  Ewing— Minersville  No.  5;  Dr.  C.  C. 
Wholey— Bellefield  School;  Dr.  B.  B.  Wood— Soho 
School ;  Dr.  J.  J.  Schill — Lawrence  School ;  Dr.  A.  Mc- 
Kibben — Andrews  School ;  Dr.  F.  Kenworthy — Wool- 
slair  School;  Dr.  G.  W.  Rail— Lincoln  School;  Dr.  W. 
H.  Rodgers — Lemington  Sc'hool ;  Dr.  Ralph  Duffey — 
Larimer  School;  Dr.  H.  M.  Hall,  Shakespeare  School, 
of  East  Liberty  District;  Dr.  A.  F.  B.  Morris — Home- 
wood  School;  Dr.  C.  B.  McAboy— Belmar ;  Dr.  E.  J. 
Thompson — Fifth  Ward,  Allegheny. 

In  order  that  the  doctors  might  work  with  system, 
and  that  parents  and  teachers  might  be  enabled  to  aid 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  65 

them,  in  the  endeavor  to  safeguard  the  children  against 
epidemic  and  other  diseases,  several  thousand  copies  of 
"Instructions  to  Teachers",  "Letters  to  Parents",  and 
inspection  cards  to  be  filled  so  as  to  designate  the  par- 
ticular disease  or  defect  of  each  patient  and  and  also  test 
cards  to  detect  deficient  eyesight,  were  printed  at  the 
expense  of  the  Civic  Club.  These  wrere  kept  in  the 
office  of  the  Club,  within  convenient  reach  of  the  doc- 
tors interested;  and  were  used  by  them  for  their  visits 
of  inspection  to  the  schools. 

The  Civic  Club  committee,  after  two  years'  pioneer 
educative  work  of  systematized  inspection  in  24  schools, 
the  introduction  of  a  Bill  in  the  1907  Legislature,  that 
failed  to  pass,  and  an  additional  year  of  constructive 
work  in  preparation  for  t'he  presentation  of  another  bill 
it  expected  to  introduce  in  1909,  prepared  a  petition  and 
appeared  before  the  Educational  Commission  appointed 
by  Governor  Stuart  at  its  first  meeting  held  in  Pitts- 
burg^h  in  May,  1908,  and  urged  that  it  embody  in  its 
School  Code  a  provision  for  medical  inspection  in 
schools.  Conferences  were  held  and  correspondence 
conducted  on  the  subject,  which  resulted  in  the  Com- 
mission embodying  in  its  Code  the  committee's  provi- 
sions, with  the  exception  that  medical  inspection  was 
made  mandatory  in  large  cities  and  permissive  in  smaller 
school  districts. 

In  December,  1908,  the  Civic  Club  committee 
called  and  held  a  conference  of  representatives  from  the 
Allegheny  County  Medical  Society,  the  Bureau  of 
Health,  the  Central  Board  of  Education  and  the  Princi- 
pals and  Teachers  Associations,  at  which  time  a  draft  of 
t'he  committee's  medical  inspection  provision  was  pre- 
sented and  a  joint  letter  sent  to  the  Commission  urging 
it  to  make  medical  inspection  mandatory  in  large  cities 
and  in  large  communities  adjacent,  instead  of  permis- 
sive as  the  Commission  intended.  The  commission  ac- 
ceded only  so  far  as  large  cities  were  concerned. 

The    School    Code   was   so   badlv   mutilated   bv   the 


66  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Legislature  of  1909,  however,  that  Governor  Stuart  re- 
fused to  sign  it,  and  this  second  attempt  to  secure  a 
medical  inspection  law  failed.  In  the  mean  time  our  city 
was  so  fortunate  as  to  have  Dr.  J.  F.  Edwards  appointed 
Superintendent  of  the  Bureau  of  Health,  and  he,  fully 
recognizing  the  importance  of  such  inspection,  suggested 
that  the  supervision  of  this  volunteer  inspection,  and  the 
expenses  etc.  connected  therewith  be  turned  over  to  his 
Bureau,  with  the  hope  and  expectation  that  the  city 
would  shortly  authorize  it  to  be  properly  installed  in  all 
the  schools  at  the  City's  expense.  The  committee  ac- 
ceeded  to  this  request,  and  shared  Dr.  Edwards'  disap- 
pointment when  it  was  finally  decided  that  it  would  not 
be  feasible  at  that  time  (Winter  1907-08). 

After  the  failure  to  secure  through  the  Legislature  a 
mandatory  law,  the  Civic  Club  committee,  being  favor- 
able to  medical  inspection  either  under  the  direction  of 
the  school  authorities  or  the  Bureau  of  Health,  exerted 
its  influence  in  both  directions,  and  therefore  early  in 
the  fall  of  1909  waited  upon  Mayor  Magee  to  ascertain 
his  views  and  urge  his  co-operation,  and  also  communi- 
cated with  Dr.  E.  R.  Walters  of  the  Department  of 
Health  in  relation  to  this  matter.  About  the  same  time 
a  sub-committee  went  before  the  Central  Board  of  Edu- 
cation, realizing  that  while  that  body  had  the  power  to 
appoint  medical  inspectors  only  for  the  High  Schools, 
each  school  board  being  absolutely  a  power  unto  itself, 
the  example  of  its  adoption  by  the  Central  Board  would 
give  more  encouragement  to  the  individual  boards.  The 
matter  at  this  meeting  was  referred  to  the  finance  com- 
mittee. 

Beginning  with  November,  1909,  a  more  active  cam- 
paign was  started  to  bring  the  matter  before  the  in- 
dividual boards  of  directors  of  public  schools.  Letters 
were  written  to  the  presidents  of  the  school  boards  re- 
questing an  audience  for  a  representative  of  the  Civic 
Club  to  present  a  practical  working  scheme  for  medical 
inspection.  (Of  this  number,  nine  already  had  regularly 


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appointed  physicians  and  one  other  immediately  in- 
stalled the  work — in  almost  all  cases  a  direct  result  of 
the  volunteer  inspection).  Answers  granting  the  re- 
quests were  received  from  32  schoolboards,  and  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Club  were  sent.  Audiences  listened 
to  their  arguments  with  interest.  Opinions  favorable  to 
medical  inspection  were  expressed  by  a  large  number  of 
the  individual  members  of  the  boards.  In  every  case  it 
was  either  promised  or  implied  that  further  considera- 
tion would  be  given  the  subject.  At  the  end  of  Decem- 
ber, 1909,  it  was  learned  that  the  Department  of  Health 
was  considering  the  adoption  of  a  system  of  inspection 
in  all  the  public  schools.  In  pursuance  of  this  policy 
the  several  school  boards  were  advised  by  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  of  its  proposed  institution  of  medical 
inspection  and  were  given  assurance  that  the  adminis- 
tration was  prepared  to  proceed  with  the  matter  as 
rapidly  as  possible,  and  the  Civic  Club  was  requested  to 
desist  from  its  efforts  in  this  behalf.  The  committee 
therefore  notified  the  school  boards  of  the  assurance 
given  that  medical  inspection  would  be  instituted  by  the 
city,  which  system  if  efficiently  installed  would  accom- 
plish the  purpose  of  the  committee,  and  that,  deeming  it 
inexpedient  and  inadvisable  to  further  urge  its  adoption 
upon  the  school  boards  severally,  the  Club  would  dis- 
continue its  efforts  until  such  time  as  the  Department 
of  Health  had  a  reasonable  opportunity  to  install  the 
system. 

In  the  spring  of  1910  an  appropriation  of  $30,000.00 
was  included  in  the  budget  of  the  Department  of  Health 
for  27  medical  inspectors.  Following  a  civil  service  ex- 
amination these  appointments  and  assignments  were 
made  and  under  the  direction  of  the  chief  medical  in- 
spector, Dr.  H.  B.  Burns,  class-room  inspection  has  been 
included  in  the  regular  routine  of  the  public  school 
work. 


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CHILD  LABOR    Legislation   prescribing  how   long  a 
1905  child    shall   work,   when   and   where 

and  under  what  circumstances,  is  of 
comparatively  very  recent  date  in  any  of  the  States,  and 
Pennsylvania  has  probably  been  slower  to  respond  to 
the  call  for  reform  than  most  of  her  sisters. 

Among   the    first   attempts    to    pass    reformative    or 
restrictive  legislation  was  that  of  1905.     At  this  session 
of     the     Legislature  a  bill     was     presented     providing, 
among   other   things,   that   in    certain    specified   occupa- 
tions, a  child  should  not  be  employed  until  he  was  four- 
teen  (an  earlier  enactment  having  fixed  the  age  at  12), 
that   working  certificates   should   not,   as  heretofore,  be 
issued  by  magistrates  and  notaries,  but  should  be  issued 
by   factory  inspectors   and  school   authorities  only,   and 
'that  an  educational  test  should  be  required  of  each  child. 
A  vigorous   campaign  was  waged  in  both   ends   of 
the  State — in  this  end  by  the  Civic  Club ;     Mrs.     F.     P. 
lams,     as     the     Legislative     Chairman     of     the     Club, 
by    her    well-directed,     systematic     energy    carried     on 
the  work  not    only    in    this    but    in    every    successive 
campaign     in     a     most     effective     and     vigorous     man- 
ner,    and     her     office     became     the     headquarters     for 
many  interesting     meetings     between     legislators,     fac- 
tory inspectors  and  representatives  of  different  associa- 
tions familiar  with  conditions,  such  as  Kingsley  House 
and   the    Columbian    Settlement,    etc.      Members   of   the 
Legislature   from   this   district   were   thus   interested   in 
the  cause ;  letters  were  written  to  all  who  could  not  be 
seen  personally ;  Miss  Kate  C.  McKnight,  President  of 
the  Club,  went  to  Harrisburg  to  watch  the  progress  of 
the  Bill   there.      The    Civic    Club    committee,    decidedly 
active  by  this  time,  arranged  a  mass  meeting  which  was 
held  March  11,  1905,  chief  among  the     speakers     being 
Mr.  Owen  Lovejoy,  Secretary     of  the     National     Child 
Labor  Association,  and  Mrs.  Florence  Kelly  of  the  Con- 
sumers  League.     The  meeting  was  very  large  and  en- 
thusiastic, many  manufacturers  or  their  representatives 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  69 

were  present  and  took  part  in  the  discussion,  rendering 
the  proceedings  somewhat  lively  by  their  criticisms  of 
the  project  and  engaging  in  personal  tilts  with  the  legis- 
lative Chairman. 

The  result  of  this  campaign  was  the  final  passage 
of  the  Bill.  Later,  however,  the  Courts  decided  that 
some  of  the  provisions  of  the  measure  were  unconstitu- 
tional, but  a  very  distinct  gain  was  left  in  the  advanced 
age  limit  from   12  to   14  years. 


SCHOLARSHIPS     In  the  fall  of  1905  after  this  provi- 
1905  sion  become   a   law   Miss  Torrens, 

one  of  the  deputy  factory  inspect- 
ors, reported  among  others  several  children  working  under 
the  regular  age  limit,  upon  w'hose  small  earnings  a  fam- 
ily was  largely  dependent.  Through  Mrs.  Herbert  Du 
Puy,  one  of  the  interested  members  of  the  Civic  Club,  a 
scholarship  fund  of  good  proportion  was  started,  to 
which  the  John  Hart  Chapter  of  the  Children  of  the 
Revolution  and  the  American  Federation  of  Labor  con- 
tributed. Two  boys  and  one  girl  were  kept  in  school, 
and  given  their  regular  vacation  as  well,  for  a  period 
covering  nearly  two  years,  the  equivalent  of  their 
weekly  salary  being  paid  to  their  mothers. 


CHILD  LABOR     In    1907    two    Bills    were    presented 
1907  embodying  the   same  general  princi- 

ples for  which  the  advocates  of 
child  labor  regulations  were  contending,  known  as  the 
Dempsey  and  Townsend  Bills.  In  their  essentials  these 
Bills  were  the  same  (and  very  similar  to  that  later 
passed  in  1909),  and  the  Pennsylvania  Child  Labor  Com- 
mittee of  Philadelphia,  the  State  Federation,  and  the 
Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  decided  to  support  the 


70  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Townsend  Bill.  Thereupon  followed  a  campaign  which 
has  gone  down  in  legislative  history  as  one  of  the  most 
remarkable  in  its  annals.  There  was  more  general  ac- 
tivity in  this  section  of  the  State  than  in  the  eastern, 
though  Mr.  Nearing,  for  the  Philadelphia  committee, 
and  his  assistants  did  yeoman  service.  Mrs.  lams,  who 
in  the  interim  had  been  busily  engaged  in  assisting  the 
eastern  part  of  the  State  in  drafting  more  advanced  legis- 
lation, again  directed  the  committee  of  the  Civic  Club 
which  in  turn  invited  the  associations  likely  to  be  inter- 
ested to  co-operate.  The  Teachers'  Association,  the 
Principals'  Association,  the  Pittsburgh  Playgrounds  As- 
sociation, the  Consumers'  League,  several  labor  organ- 
izations, two  or  three  Boards  of  Trade,  Catholic  and 
Hebrew  Associations,  Twentieth  Century  Club,  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution  and  many  in- 
dividuals joined,  and  a  veritable  whirlwind  cam- 
paign followed.  Thousands  of  letters  and  tele- 
grams were  sent  advocating  the  passage  of  the 
Townsend  Bill  and  protesting  against  the  Hapgood  or 
Delaney  "Administration"  Bill  (which  had  been  pre- 
sented as  an  amendment  to  the  Factory  Laws)  ;  minis- 
ters were  asked  to  preach  upon  the  subject  and  a  con- 
stant lobbying  force  was  kept  at  Harrisburg;  Prof. 
Anthony,  Miss  McKnight,  Mr.  Fernald,  Miss  Kennard, 
Miss  Grimes,  Mrs.  Ammon  and  others  going  from  Pitts- 
burgh. To  awaken  an  intelligent  interest  in  this  matter 
throughout  this  vicinity  another  public  meeting  was 
held  by  the  Club  on  March  9,  1907,  w'hen  Mr.  Lovejoy 
of  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Nearing  and  Miss  Sanville  of  Philadel- 
phia and  many  others  spoke.  Previous  to  this  the  ex- 
penses involved  had  been  met  entirely  by  the  Civic  Club, 
but  following  this  meeting  twenty-eight  organizations 
joined  in  the  work  and  the  majority  of  this  number  con- 
tributed toward  the  expenses  incurred  for  printing,  post- 
age, and  traveling  expenses. 

The  fight  waxed  fast  and  furious  up    to    the    very 
last  day  of  the  Legislature,  and,  while  the  Townsend  Bill 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  71 

failed  to  pass,  so  many  amendments  were  engrafted 
upon  Delaney's  Factory  Bill  that  it  was  withdrawn  and 
no  Bill  passed  at  this  session.  An  important  forward 
step  was  taken,  however,  in  the  passage  of  a  Bill  rais- 
ing the  compulsory  education  limit  at  which  a  child 
may  stop  school  to  go  to  work,  from  13  to  14  years. 


ALLEGHENY  COUNTY     The     team-work      of      the 
CHILD  LABOR  Pittsburgh      workers     had 

ASSOCIATION  proved    so    satisfactory    in 

1907  this     campaign,     that     the 

Civic  Club  decided  to 
effect  a  permanent  association  for  this  section.  In  July 
of  1907  the  Allegheny  County  Child  Labor  Association 
was  organized  and  Prof.  John  W.  Anthony  chosen  as  its 
first  President.  Thereafter  the  principal  work  was  carried 
on  through  this  Association,  the  Civic  Club,  however, 
being  an  affiliated  working  member,  again  assisted  in 
the  campaign  of  1909.  The  history  would  not  be  complete 
without  noting  that  this  campaign,  whidh  was  also  re- 
markable for  its  vigor  and  able  management,  resulted 
in  the  passage  of  an  Act  which  in  the  main  is  a  very 
satisfactory  one,  its  essentials  being: 

1.  No  child  under  14  shall  work  in  factories,  stores, 
mines,  etc. 

2.  Documentory   proof  of  age  must  be  furnished. 

3.  Working  certificates  can  be  issued  only  by  the 
sdhool  authorities. 

4.  Age  limit  in  bituminous  coal  mines  raised  from 
12  to  14  years. 

5.  Maximum  hours  per  day  reduced  from  12  to  10, 
and  per  week  from  60  to  58. 

(i.  That  no  boy  under  sixteen  or  girl  under  18 
shall  work  before  6  A.  M.  or  after  9  P.  M.,  with  glass 
house  and  messenger  boy  exceptions. 

The  friends  of  the  measures  were  disappointed  that 


72  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

in  order  to  secure  the  foregoing  provisions  it  was  again 
necessary  to  compromise  with  the  glass  men  and  make 
an  exception,  whereby  boys  between  the  ages  of  14  and 
16  may  worlc  all  night  in  any  business  that  is  continuous 
in  its  processes.  This  exception,  unfortunately,  while  not 
intended  to  include  any  save  glass-house  boys,  was  so 
worded  that  it  was  later  found  to  permit  all-night  work 
by  boys  of  similiar  age  in  messenger  service.  It  is  the 
intention  to  continue  the  campaign  in  the  1911  Legisla- 
ture to  secure  prohibition  of  suc'h  night  work. 


DOWN-TOWN  LIBRARIES     The    Educational     De- 
1905  partment     was  a  most 

active  section  during 
the  year  of  1905,  and,  in  addition  to  the  work  already 
accomplished,  was  studying  the  question  and  advocating 
the  institution  of  sectional  night  schools.  Through  the 
press  and  conferences  with  merchants,  the  attention  of 
the  public  was  called  to  the  need  of  a  down-town 
branch  of  the  Carnegie  Library.  Later  on  this  was  ac- 
complished through  a  call  station  located  on  the  first 
floor  of  Kaufmanns'  store.  This  later  had  to  be  aban- 
doned, however,  because  the  transportation  of  the  books 
to  and  from  the  library  became  a  stupendous  task,  the 
library  'having  no  vehicle  of  its  own  for  this  purpose.  It 
was  the  intention  of  the  library  authorities  to  establish 
another  down-town  branch  with  proper  delivering  fa- 
cilities, but  the  reduction  of  the  appropriation  from 
Councils  made  this  impossible. 


CONVENTIONS     In   December  of    1905,    Hon.    Wil- 

1905  liam   M.  Kennedy  and  Mr.  Charles 

B.    Price,     representing     the     Civic 

Club,  attended  the  National  Convention  on  Immigration 


or  THE  ^ 

ilVERSlTY  )■) 

OF 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  73 


held  in  New     York,  upon     appointment     by     Governor 
Pennypacker. 


SUBWAY     Improved  transportation  facilities  have  for 
1905  a  number  of  years  demanded  and  received 

the  attention  of  the  Club,  and  a  deep  inter- 
est has  naturally  been  taken  in  all  proposed  plans  for  a 
subway  as  a  possible  means  of  relieving  congestion. 
Governor  Pennypacker  recognized  the  interest  of  the 
Club  by  inviting  it  to  send  representatives  to  a  meeting 
held  in  Harrisburg;  at  the  annual  meeting  of  1906  an 
address  was  made  upon  the  subject,  and  at  various  times 
members  of  the  committee  appointed  have  participated 
in  discussions  before  Councils  and  elsewhere. 


STATE  LEGISLATION     In    addition     to     the     Child 
1905  Labor    Bills    introduced    in 

the  Legislature  of  1905,  the 
Civic  Club  endorsed,  by  letter  and  interview,  the  Mc- 
Elroy  Bill  amending  the  Juvenile  Court  Laws ;  Mause 
Bill  providing  for  establishment  of  Parental  Schools  for 
Habitual  Truants;  two  Bills  for  the  establishment  of 
sanitariums  for  consumptives;  the  Riley  Bill  abolishing 
capital  punishment;  and  a  Bill  for  the  registration  of 
trained  nurses. 


GROUPING  OF  As  the  Civic  Club  has  always 

PUBLIC  BUILDINGS     been    in    sympathy   with     the 
1906  proposals  looking  toward  the 

grouping  of  public  buildings 
on  some  commanding  site,  it  was  resolved  to  indorse 
the  plans  which  the  Pittsburgh  Chapter  of  the  American 
Institute   of  Architects  had  prepared  for  such   a  group 


74  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

around  a  plaza  to  be  laid  out  on  the  "hump,"  extending 
from  the  Court  House  to  Sixth  Avenue.  Accordingly  a 
committee  was  appointed  to  second  the  efforts  to  have 
these  plans  considered,  and,  if  possible,  adopted  by 
Councils. 

In  May,  1906,  the  Civic  Club  united  with  the  Pitts- 
burgh Chapter,  American  League  of  Architects,  in  hav- 
ing a  lecture  given  in  Carnegie  Hall  by  Mr.  Albert  Kel- 
sey,  of  Philadelphia,  on  "A  Pittsburgh  Possible",  show- 
ing what  a  magnificent  city  might  be  built  ^here,  instead 
of  the  haphazard  conglomeration  which  now  appears 
within  the  embrace  of  our  three  great  rivers. 


THE  SURVEY     In  January,  1907,  the    Charities    and 
1907  Commons  of  New  York,  desiring  to 

publish  a  special  Pittsburgh  edition, 
through  Mr.  Paul  Kellogg,  asked  that  the  Civic  Club 
help  meet  the  expense  of  this  publication  by  a  donation 
to  cover  the  detailed  investigation  dealing  with  poverty. 
Miss  McKnight,  then  President  of  the  Club,  was 
very  enthusiastic  over  the  plan  and  appointed  Miss  Edna 
Meeker  as  Chairman  of  a  committee  for  this  special 
work.  Miss  Louisa  W.  Knox  volunteered  her  services 
as  special  investigator.  Poverty,  its  phases,  its  preven- 
tion ;  charitable  agencies,  their  methods,  subsidy  and 
sources  of  revenue,  were  to  be  the  specific  matters  in- 
vestigated. Mr.  Kellogg  having  been  informed  of  the 
Civic  Club's  assistance  through  a  special  investigator, 
further  suggested  that  a  donation  for  expert  survey,  such 
as  traveling  and  hotel  expenses  of  heads  of  the  depart- 
ments supervisiing  this  work,  would  be  appreciated.  In 
response  to  this  suggestion  the  Civic  Club  contributed 
$50.00.  The  original  plan  was  never  put  in  operation, 
for  the  work,  once  begun,  developed  such  proportions 
that  the  plan  to  embrace  the  whole  report  in  one  edition 
of  the  magazine  was    abandoned.       The     Russell     Sage 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  75 

Foundation  assumed  the  financial  obligations   and  ulti- 
mately stood  sponsor  for  the  project. 


GREATER  PITTSBURGH     Possibly      the       greatest 
1907  cause  for  public  rejoicing 

in  1907  was  the  fact  that 
the  actual  consolidation  of  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny 
was  effected  in  December  of  that  year  through  laws 
passed  at  a  special  session  of  the  Legislature  in  April, 
1906,  voted  upon  in  the  two  cities  in  June  of  the  same 
}  ear  and  sustained  by  the  Supreme  Court  in  1907.  The 
contest  over  this  progressive  step  was  long  drawn  out 
and  the  Civic  Club  was  proud  to  have  been  among  the 
other  civic  bodies  t'hat  co-operated,  and  sent  representa- 
tives to  Harrisburg  to  speak  in  favor  of  the  consolida- 
tion of  the  twin  cities. 


INCREASED  GAS  RATES     The      Civic     Club      sent 
1907  representatives    to    Har- 

risburg when  Mayor 
Guthrie  lifted  his  hand  against  the  unwarranted  raise  in 
the  price  of  gas,  and  stood  ready  to  serve  in  the  best 
course  deemed  advisable  to  pursue  against  this 
monopoly. 


STATE  LEGISLATION     The  beginning  of  the   year 
1907  1907  ushered  in  the  legisla- 

tive session  in  Harris- 
burg, which  incidentally  increased  the  Club's  activities 
and  directed  its  energies  toward  securing  better  legisla- 
tion for  Child  Labor,  to  safeguard  the  interests  of  the 
thousands  of  children  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania; 
Compulsory  Education,  an  important  measure  to  har- 
monize compulsory  education  law     with  factorv     law; 


76  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Civil  Service  Reform ;  Free  Library  Commission,  to 
send  school  libraries  into  districts  which  had  no  access 
to  public  libraries;  regulation  of  sweat-shop  work; 
protection  of  children  from  neglect,  cruelty  and 
abandonment ;  better  Juvenile  Court  legislation ; 
Juvenile  Court  Fee  Bills;  limited  probationary  system 
for  convicts,  to  provide  a  humane  and  wise  system  of 
probation  for  convicts  in  penitentiaries  which  would 
give  them  a  chance  to  "try  again"  for  a  better  life; 
Anti-Expectoration ;  regulation  of  billboards ;  two 
Bills  introduced  by  the  Civic  Club,  one  for  Free  Medical 
Inspection  in  Schools,  and  one  revising  the  Tenement 
House  Laws  for  cities  of  the  second  class,  (both  of 
which  were  lost)  ;  and  Camp  Schools  for  Foreigners,  to 
provide  for  establishment  of  schools  where  foreigners 
may  receive  instruction  in  English. 


FEDERAL  LEGISLATION     In       Washington       the 
1907  Civic  Club     urged     the 

passage  of  a  National 
Pure  Food  Bill,  and  joined  with  the  American  Civic 
Association  in  the  fight  to  save  Niagara  Falls  from  com- 
mercial vandalism.  The  latter,  while  regulated  to  a 
small  extent,  is  by  no  means  a  settled  question. 


MISS  MCKNIGHT'S  The    death    of   Miss    Kate    Cas- 
DEATH  satt   McKnight  on  August   15th, 

1907  1907,    came   as    a    crushing   blow 

not  only  to  the  Civic  Club, 
whose  President  she  had  been  since  1902,  but  to  the  en- 
tire community. 

It  has  not  been  possible  in  the  foregoing  history  of 
the  Civic  Club  to  show  the  part  which  she,  as  one  of  its 
founders,   took    in    each    individual    movement ;   but   she 


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gave  freely  of  her  time,  'her  ability,  her  strength ;  and 
her  purse  was  open,  not  only  for  her  public  works,  but 
for  many  private  charities. 

Her  patience  with  troublesome  questions,  her  self- 
denial  and  heroism,  her  cheerfulness,  unselfishness, 
charity  and  kindly  thoughtfulness  'have  left  their  imprint 
upon  the  work  which  she  promoted  and  fostered  and 
upon  the  workers  with  whom  she  came  in  contact  and 
who  loved  her. 

Miss  McKnight  was  especially  fitted,  by  natural  en- 
dowment and  special  study,  to  foster  all  forms  of  civic 
betterment  and  public  education.  Her  higih  ideals, 
patriotism,  devotion,  loyalty  and  faith  in  the  city  which 
her  forefathers  'had  founded  formed  the  underlying 
principles  of  her  life  work,  and  proved  the  altar  upon 
which  she  laid  her  life  as  a  sacrifice. 


HOME  FOR  In  order  to  cover  the  problem 

TRUANT  CHILDREN     dealing  with  the  truant  child 
1907  as  taken   up  by   the     Educa- 

tional Department  of  the 
Civic  Club,  it  is  necessary  to  go  back  five  years.  At  this 
time  in  Western  Pennsylvania  there  were  but  two  insti- 
tutions for  the  care  of  delinquent  boys  and  girls :  Mor- 
ganza,  the  reform  school  (a  State  institution),  and  the 
Boys'  School  at  Oakdale,  which  preferred  to  take  only 
homeless  and  more  or  less  dependent  white  boys ;  there- 
fore there  was  no  place  to  send  the  incorrigible  child  or 
habitual  truant  save  to  the  former  institution.  A  com- 
mittee with  Dr.  Francis  Henry  Wade  as  Chairman  was 
appointed  in  January  1002  to  ascertain  if  any  further 
legislation  would  be  necessary  to  enable  it  to  have 
truant  children  committed  to  its  care  in  a  'house  of  de- 
tention, if  such  a  home  should  be  established  by  the 
Civic  Club.  It  was  found  that  additional  legislation 
was  not  necessary  according  to  a  legislative  enactment. 


78  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

known  as  "An  Act  to  provide  for  the  attendance,  and 
for  reports  of  attendance  of  the  children  in  the  schools 
of  this  Commonwealth".  In  view  of  this  fact  the  Chair- 
man advocated  the  establishment  of  a  home  for  the  com- 
mitment of  such  truant  children  as  were  being  sent  to 
Morganza.  The  detail  matter  connected  with  this  move- 
ment covered  a  long  period.  In  included  the  collection 
of  data  covering  the  number  of  truant  children  sent  to 
the  truant  school,  and  the  number  of  the  habit- 
ual or  incorrigible  truants  sent  to  the  reform 
school.  It  included  numberless  interviews  with 
the  boards  of  control  and  directors,  truant  officers, 
etc.  The  investigation  resulted  in  an  effort  to  raise  the 
standard  of  the  truant  school  and  to  assist  the  truant 
officers  to  place  the  children  in  private  homes.  In  1905 
the  committee,  with  Mrs.  J.  P.  O'Connor,  Chairman, 
again  took  up  the  investigation  and  was  in  turn  followed 
by  a  committee  reorganized  under  Mrs.  V.  Matthews,  to 
consider  the  establishment  of  a  truant  school  in  Pitts- 
burgh. A  number  of  meetings  were  held,  and  the  sub- 
ject thoroughly  discussed  with  various  people  and  repre- 
sentatives of  several  associations  likely  to  be  most  inter- 
ested, including  the  Juvenile  Court  Association,  Central 
Board  of  Education,  the  Principals'  and  Teachers'  Asso- 
ciations, Allegheny  County  Bar  Association,  City  and 
County  Controllers,  and  County  Commissioners.  The 
conclusion  was  finally  reached  that  the  need  of  our  com- 
munity was  broader  than  could  be  served  solely  by  a 
truancy  school.  That  there  are  quite  a  number  of  in- 
corrigible truants  who  vex  the  school  principals  and 
teachers  was  found  to  be  true,  but  the  number  was  not 
so  great  as  to  justify  the  establishment  of  an  expensive 
school  to  meet  that  need  alone.  It  developed,  however, 
while  pursuing  this  subject,  that  there  was  quite  an 
imperative  need  for  a  training  school  for  boys  in  our 
community,  to  which  the  Juvenile  Court  might  commit 
incorrigible  truants  and  other  delinquent  boys. 

In  1908  this  committee  also  took  up  with  the  proper 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  79 

authorities  the  possibility  of  securing  the  Allegheny- 
City  Poor-farm  at  Claremont,  (it  being  rumored  that  it 
might  be  abandoned  upon  the  consolidation  of  the  two 
cities),  for  use  as  an  industrial  home  for  the  children 
who  came  under  the  care  of  the  Juvenile  Court.  It  was 
learned  that  there  was  no  immediate  likelihood  of  any 
change  being  made  whereby  the  Poor-farm  would  be 
used  for  any  other  purposes  than  at  present. 

The  Truancy  Committee,  therefore,  after  carefully, 
canvassing  the  entire  subject,  reported  in  September, 
1908,  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Civic  Club  their 
finding — that  the  greatest  community  need  was  for  a 
boys'  training  school  to  be  established  either  by  the 
City,  County  or  State. 

The  report  of  Mrs,  Matthews'  committee  having 
been  considered  and  accepted  by  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  the  Civic  Club,  it  appointed  a  steering  committee  to 
use  the  information  gathered  by  the  Truancy  Committee 
and  to  take  charge  of  the  promotion  of  such  a  school. 
The  Truancy  Committee  merged  with  the  above  com- 
mittee and  the  solution  of  the  problem  followed  in  the 
years  1908  and  1909. 


ALLEGHENY  COUNTY     With    the     creation     of     a 
INDUSTRIAL  AND  steering  committee     which 

TRAINING  SCHOOL  was  to  make  definite  plans 

FOR  BOYS  for  a  'home  for  boys  of  the 

1908  Juvenile  Court     (including 

incorrigible  truants,  delin- 
quents, etc.,)  Rev.  R.  M.  Little  was  appointed  Chair- 
man in  September,  1908.  Discussion  was  at  first  cen- 
tered upon  the  establishment  of  a  State  school,  parental 
as  distinguished  from  penal  in  its  type,  to  serve  Alle- 
gheny and  surrounding  counties,  the  board  of  nine  mem- 
bers to  be  appointed  by  the  Governor.  Finally,  however, 
it  was  decided  to  try  to  get  a  provision  for  such  a  school 
incorporated  into  the  School  Code,  then  being  prepared 


80  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

by  the  State  School  Commission.  Accordingly  a  draft 
of  the  plan  for  a  training  school  was  sent  to  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  State  Commission,  Prof.  George  W.  Phillips, 
West  Chester,  Pa.,  for  the  Commission's  consideration. 
The  subject  was  also  discussed  with  Mr.  D.  B.  Oliver, 
the  Pittsburg  representative  on  that  Commission,  in  per- 
son. The  School  Commission  declined  to  incorporate 
this  feature  in  the  School  Code,  and  this  necessitated 
the  consideration  of  some  other  method  of  procedure. 

Finally  the  committee  unanimously  decided  to  have 
a  Bill  drafted  applicable  to  Allegheny  County,  the  board 
of  nine  members  to  be  appointed  by  the  Common  Pleas 
Judges,  which  members  in  conjunction  with  the  three 
County  Commissioners  should  establish  the  school,  and 
have  it  in  immediate  dharge.  The  money  for  its  estab- 
lishment and  maintenance  was  to  be  provided  by  the 
County. 

When  this  plan  for  the  school  was  fully  decided 
upon,  a  sub-committee,  in  conjunction  with  Mr.  George 
Alter,  a  member  of  the  Civic  Club  and  representative 
from  the  Thirteenth  Legislative  District,  redrafted  the 
subject  matter  into  the  form  of  a  Bill,  which  after  hearty 
approval  on  the  part  of  the  committee,  was  introduced 
into  the  House  by  Mr.  Alter,  under  whose  most  skilful 
management  it  passed  both  Houses  as  drafted,  without 
opposition,  and  was  signed  by  Governor  Stuart  on  May 
1,  1909.  Great  credit  is  due  to  Representative  Alter  for 
his  masterly  handling  of  this  matter  in  the  Legislature. 

The  text  of  the  Bill,  in  brief,  is  a  mandatory  provi- 
sion for  the  establis'hment  of  schools  supplementary  to 
the  school  system  of  the  Commonwealth  in  each  county 
having  a  population  of  750,000  and  not  over  1,200,000; 
said  schools  to  be  open  the  entire  year,  and  established 
on  the  cottage  home  plan,  to  be  presided  over  by  a 
superintendent,  trained  in  educational  and  social  work ; 
the  buildings  to  be  substantially  constructed,  provided 
with  baths,  play-grounds,  sleeping-rooms  and  kitchen; 
ample  grounds  to  be  provided  for  farming,  dairying,  and 


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out-door  recreation;  and  that  as  far  as  possible  the  men- 
tal, moral,  and  physical  welfare  and  advancement  of  the 
children  therein  detained  be  adequately  provided  for. 
The  schools  shall  be  established  on  farms,  and  managed 
by  the  Board  of  Managers,  nine  of  vs^hom  shall  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Judges  of  the  Courts  of  Common  Pleas, 
who  with  the  County  Commissioners  shall  constitute 
said  Board.  The  appropriation  for  this  school  to  be  paid 
by  the  County,  either  by  tax  levy  or  by  issue  of  bonds 
as  the  County  Commissioners  shall  deem  wise.  After 
the  law  had  been  enacted,  the  Civic  Club  committee  de- 
cided that  it  would  be  entirely  proper  for  a  sub-com- 
mittee from  their  number  to  wait  upon  the  Board  of 
Judges.  The  Committee  appraised  the  Judges  of  the 
nature  of  the  law,  its  pressing  need  and  the  importance* 
of  the  early  appointment  of  the  Board  of  Managers.  The 
Board  of  Judges  thereupon  granted  the  sub-committee 
a  hearing  in  June,  1909,  and  within  two  weeks  the  Board 
of  Managers  was  appointed.  As  Chairman  of  the  steer- 
ing committee,  Dr.  Little  was  made  a  member  of  this 
Board,  as  were  also  several  other  members  of  the  Civic 
Club. 

Preliminary  to  formulating  plans  for  the  school,  the 
Board  took  hold  of  the  enterprise  with  intelligence  and 
interest,  and  there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that  in  the 
near  future  Allegheny  County  will  have  a  training 
school  for  delinquent  boys,  helpful  to  the  boys,  a  credit 
to  the  County  and  State  and  an  honor  to  the  Civic  Club 
w'hich  conceived  and  promoted  the  enterprise. 

The  School  will  be  known  as  the  Allegheny  County 
Industrial  and  Training  School  for  Boys,  and  is  to  be 
located  at  Thorn  Hill,  Marshall  Township,  Allegheny 
and  Butler  Counties,  on  the  Pittsburg,  Butler  and  Har- 
mony Railroad. 


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REMOVAL  OF  The     Social     Science      Depart- 

PENITENTIARY  ment,     under     its      wide-awake 

1908  Chairman,  Mrs.    lams,    learning 

that  the  State  Board  of  Char- 
ities was  discussing  plans  for  improving  the  conditions 
at  the  Western  Penitentiary  by  the  erection  of  new 
buildings  outside  of  Pittsburgh,  immediately  endorsed 
the  plan,  through  correspondence  with  the  State  Board 
and  recommended  removal  to  a  large  site  vvhere  not 
only  vegetables  and  other  farm  products  could  be  raised, 
but  where  tuberculous  patients  could  be  cared  for  apart 
from  the  other  prisoners.  This  movement  has  gained 
many  supporters,  chief  among  whom  is  the  progressive 
Warden  of  the  institution,  Mr.  John  Francies,  and  bids 
fair  to  result  in  the  enabling  legislation  during  the 
present  session. 


PURE  MILK     In  May,  1908,  one  of  the  open  meetings 
1908  of  the  Educational     Department     was 

devoted  solely  to  the  Milk  Commission 
and  its  efforts  to  supply  pure  milk  to  the  people  of 
Pittsburgh.  In  order  to  make  more  forceful  the  value 
of  encouraging  this  movement,  which  the  Civic  Club 
most  heartily  endorsed,  it  co-operated  by  calling  the 
attention  of  the  members  to  its  importance  through  in- 
teresting addresses  by  members  of  the  Commission  with 
illustrated  charts  upon  the  subject. 


CIVIC  EXHIBIT     The  Civic  Club     was  one     of     the 
1908  hosts  for  the  annual  joint  conven- 

tion of  the  National  Municipal 
League  and  American  Civic  Association  which  was  held 
November  16,  1908  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
Trinity  Chapel.  The  Club  was  also  represented  in  the 
civic  exhibit  held  at  Carnegie  Institute  from  the  above 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  83 

date  to  December  31st,  1908.  The  reports  of  investiga- 
tions of  certain  living  conditions  in  the  city  formed  the 
nucleus  around  which  the  various  civic  and  altruistic 
agencies  of  the  city  hung  exhibits  showing  the  results 
of  their  efforts  and  labor  for  civic  betterment. 


CONSERVATION     In  April,  1908,     resolutions     were 
1908  sent  by  the   Civic  Club  to  Theo- 

dore Roosevelt,  then  President  of 
the  United  States,  expressing  its  gratification  because  of 
his  action  in  calling  a  conference  of  the  governors  of  all 
the  States,  with  their  advisors,  the  Senators  and  Repre- 
sentatives in  Congress,  as  well  as  members  of  national 
organizations  interested  in  the  present  and  future  de- 
velopment of  this  country,  to  consider  the  "Conserva- 
tion of  our  Natural  Resources"  and  ultimately  to  secure 
improved  State  and  Federal  legislation  to  provide  for  the 
future  commercial  and  industrial  welfare  of  the  nation. 


FREE  BRIDGES     As  one  of  the   many  civic     bodies 
1908  interested,  the  Civic  Club  sent  rep- 

resentatives who  appeared  before 
Councils  in  October,  1908,  advocating  the  freeing  of  the 
bridges  as  soon  as  practicable. 


CAMP  SCHOOL     The  active     interest     of     the     Civic 
1908  Club  in  educational     work     among 

foreigners  had  its  beginning  in 
April,  1908,  when  the  Society  for  Italian  Immigrants  of 
New  York  requested  the  Civic  Club  and  the  Twentieth 
Century  Club  to  undertake  the  supervision  of  the  camp 
school  for  Italian  laborers  located  at  the  filtration  plant 


84  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

in  Aspinwall.  This  school  had  been  established  by  Miss 
Sara  Moore,  the  Society's  superintendent  of  camp 
schools.  Committees  from  the  Civic  Club,  with  Mrs.  E. 
Vermorcken,  Chairman,  and  from  the  Twentieth  Cen- 
tury Club,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Imbrie,  Chairman,  were  appointed 
and  under  their  direction  the  work  was  continued  until 
the  camp  was  disbanded  upon  completion  of  the  filtra- 
tion plant.  The  school  building  was  then  moved  to  Am- 
bridge,  Pa.,  where  the  Society  for  Italian  Immigrants 
has  established  another  school  for  adult  foreigners. 


EDUCATIONAL  WORK  As  a  result  of  the  interest 
AMONG  FOREIGNERS  aroused  in  the  welfare  and 
1909  education   of   our     foreign 

population  through  the 
work  in  the  camp  school,  a  Committee  on  Work  among 
Foreigners  with  Miss  Martha  E.  Kelly,  Chairman,  was 
appointed  in  the  fall  of  1909  in  the  Educational  Depart- 
ment of  the  Civic  Club,  with  the  idea  of  ultimately  or- 
ganizing civic  clubs  among  foreigners.  Classes  were 
formed  and  instruction  in  English  and  civics  given.  In 
two  rooms  of  the  Soho  Bath-house  successful  night 
classes  were  held,  beginning  March  8,  1910,  on  Tuesday 
and  Thursday  evenings,  under  the  direction  of  Miss 
Mary  Breeze,  Miss  St.  Peter,  Miss  Mary  Wilson,  Miss 
Susan  Maple,  A'liss  Belle  McMillan  and  two  or  three 
assistants.  Several  large  open  meetings  were  held,  a 
feature  of  these  being  an  address  in  a  foreign  tongue 
(according  to  the  nationality  of  the  audience),  and 
stereopticon  views  of  some  of  the  scenic  wonders  of  the 
United  States. 

In  May,  1910,  this  committee  of  the  Educational  De- 
partment called  a  conference  of  representatives  of  or- 
ganizations now  engaged  in  civic  and  educational  work 
among  foreigners  in  Pittsburgh.  The  purpose  of  the  con- 
ference was   simply   to   bring  the  workers   together  for 


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the  mutual  benefit  to  be  derived  from  an  exchange  of 
ideas  and  a  discussion  of  methods.  Addresses  were  made 
dealing  with  the  work  done  by  the  Church,  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  the  public  schools  and  the  Carnegie  Library,  The 
necessity  for  co-operation  among  existing  agencies  was 
so  strongly  felt  that  it  was  decided  to  make  the  confer- 
ence an  annual  event. 

Immediately  following  this  conference  a  number  of 
prominent  Italians,  under  the  leadership  of  Rev.  Salva- 
tore  Musso,  held  a  meeting  June  twenty-ninth,  1910,  at 
which  they  appointed  a  committee  to  co-operate  with  the 
Civic  Club  in  a  plan  which  should  directly  result  in  the 
civic  betterment  of  their  own  people  in  this  community. 

In  the  fall  of  1910,  following  a  summer  vacation,  the 
evening  classes  for  foreigners  were  again  started  in  the 
Soho  Bath-house  every  Tuesday  and  Thursday  evening. 
At  the  same  time  the  committee  was  extending  its  work 
by  making  arrangements  for  opening  other  classes  in 
the  Ralston  School  and  Lawrenceville  district.  In  pur- 
suance of  the  policy  adopted  the  year  before,  entertain- 
ments have  been  arranged  for  every  month  during  the 
season. 


OPEN-AIR  In  February,  1909,  through  the  efforts  of 
SCHOOL  the  Tuberculosis  Committee  of  the  Civic 
1909  Club,  an  open-air  school  was  provided  on 

one  of  the  porches  of  the  Tuberculosis 
Hospital  and  was  equipped  with  desks  and  books.  The 
salary  of  a  teacher  was  assumed  and  continued  until 
September,  1910.  The  money  for  this  undertaking  was 
raised  by  enthusiastic  and  energetic  members  of  the 
committee,  including  Miss  Katherine  Eichleay,  Miss 
Mary  Gleim,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Pickering  and  Mrs.  Paul  Sturte- 
vant,  with  two  generous  contributions  from  the 
Women's  Southern  Society. 

The   Hospital   supplied   the   sleeping  bags  and  the 
three  meals  a  day  to  the  pupils,  whose  number  varied 


86  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

from  12  to  15.  These  children  had  four  hours  of  study 
and  two  hours  of  rest  and  gained  in  weight  on  an  aver- 
age of  55^  pounds.  At  the  same  time  the  attention  of 
the  public  was  drawn  to  the  advantages  accruing  from 
this  method  of  treating  backward  school  children  in 
other  cities  and  interest  was  solicited  toward  the  demand 
for  it  in  Pittsburgh. 

The  statistics,  so  far  as  the  work  has  gone,  show 
that  there  are  probably  enough  children  afflicted  with 
tuberculosis  in  our  city  to  fill  such  an  open-air  school  in 
each  ward.  It  is  the  aim  of  the  committee  to  see  that 
such  schools  are  established  wherever  needed.  An  open 
meeting  was  held  in  Carnegie  Hall  in  January,  1910, 
arranged  by  Dr.  W.  C.  White,  Chairman,  Dr. 
E.  B.  McCready  and  Dr.  T.  W.  Grayson,  the 
latter  giving  an  illustrated  lecture  upon  what 
has  been  done  not  only  for  the  tuberculous  but 
aenemic  and  backward  children  in  schools  of  other 
cities.  Dr.  Grayson  has  appeared  before  the  Principals 
and  Teachers  Associations  of  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny, 
and  found  much  interest  and  willingness  to  co-operate 
on  the  part  of  those  who  know,  by  their  contact  with 
the  children  committed  to  their  charge,  what  advantages 
there  would  be  in  the  provision  for  an  open-air  depart- 
ment in  each  public  school  building. 

The  committee  'has  divided  the  work  among  sub- 
committees under  the  headings  of  literature,  lectures 
and  publicity.  A  public  campaign  has  been  begun  by 
sending  the  most  recent  and  instructive  literature  to  the 
members  of  the  school  boards,  principals  and  all  those 
who  may  directly  be  interested  in  this  up-to-date  and 
improved  method  of  taking  care  of  the  physically  and 
mentally  deficient  pupil. 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  87 

LECTURE  COURSE     Beginning  with  the  fall  of  1909 
1909  and  continuing  into  the  Spring 

of  1910  a  course  of  six  lectures 
was  held  under  the  joint  auspices  of  seven  organizations 
in  the  Allied  Boards  of  Trade.  The  Civic  Club  acted 
as  host  upon  one  of  these  occasions  and  through  its 
Committee,  Mr.  William  P.  Field,  Mr.  Charles  B.  Fer- 
nald,  and  Mr.  Malcolm  McGififin  assisted  in  arranging 
an  interesting  program  of  civic  lectures  and  debates. 


OPEN  MEETINGS     In  addition  to  the  annual  Meet- 
1909  ing  of  the  Civic  Club,  which  is 

open  to  the  Club  members  and 
their  friends,  there  were  held  in  1909  two  open  meetings, 
one  in  February  and  one  in  June  to  discuss  the  general 
work  of  the  Club. 


STATE  LEGISLATION     The  year  1909,  being  what 
1909  might  be  called  for  the  lack 

of  a  better  term,  a  legisla- 
tive year,  the  chief  activities  of  the  Civic  Club  centered 
about  proposed  legislation  along  a  number  of  lines  in 
which  it  was  interested.  The  measures  that  seemed  all- 
important  at  this  time  were  the  Bills  drafted  in 
the  Civic  Club,  providing  for  an  industrial  and 
training  school  for  boys,  which  passed ;  and  another 
Bill  introduced  through  the  Committee  on  Camp 
Schools  asking  for  an  appropriation  for  night  schools 
for  foreigners,  with  which  to  cover  the  provi- 
sions of  the  Bill  passed  in  1907,  which  did  not  pass; 
the  School  Code,  in  which  was  incorporated  the  provi- 
sion for  medical  inspection  in  schools  as  recommended 
by  the  Committee  on  Medical  Inspection  of  the  Civic 
Club,  and  the  Child  Labor  Bills,     Consumers     League 


88  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Bills,  The  Anti-Expectoration,  and  Adult  Probation 
Bills,  which  were  endorsed  and  advocated  by  personal 
interviews  and  correspondence. 


FEDERAL  LEGISLATION     In  addition  to  the  State 
1909  Legislation,  petitions 

were  sent  to  Congress 
advocating  the  creation  of  a  Federal  Children's  Bureau ; 
renewed  efforts  were  also  made  urging  the  passage  of 
laws  for  the  protection  of  Niagara,  and  for  the  passage 
of  the  Appalachian  and  White  Mountain  Reserve  Bill. 
This  last  measure  has  been  tossed  from  pillar  to  post 
until  it  has  at  last  been  unanimously  agreed  by  the  House 
and  Senate  to  vote  upon  it  the  15th  of  February,  1911. 
As  this  goes  to  press  the  Bill  has  become  a  law. 


ROOMS  OF  DETENTION     Perhaps    the     most    im- 
1910  portant     direct       accom- 

plishment of  the  Club 
during  the  year  1910  has  been  the  securing  of  a  proper 
enforcement  of  the  Juvenile  Court  Law  in  its  provision 
as  to  rooms  of  detention  for  children  under  sixteen  who 
are  in  custody  and  awaiting  hearing  or  placement. 

Although  the  Juvenile  Court  Act,  passed  in  1903, 
specifically  states  that  "No  child,  pending  a  hearing  un- 
der the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be  held  in  confine- 
ment in  any  county  or  other  jail  or  police  station,  or  in 
any  institution  to  which  adult  convicts  are  sentenced", 
the  Juvenile  Court  Committee  deemed  it  inexpedient  to 
delay  the  organization  of  the  Court  until  suitable  rooms 
of  detention  could  be  provided,  and  consented  to  what 
was  expected  to  be  a  very  temporary  waiver  of  this 
proviso.     However,  seven     years     were     permitted     to 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  89 

elapse,  with  the  children  of  the  Juvenile  Court  still  kept 
within  the  gloomy  prison  walls.  W'hen  it  is  remem- 
bered that  many  of  the  wards  of  this  Court  are  very 
young,  (their  ages  ranging  from  five  or  six  to  sixteen 
years)  and  that  numbers  of  them  are  detained  not  even 
for  an  alleged  offense,  but  merely  as  dependent  children 
awaiting  the  decision  of  the  Court  relative  to  their  dis- 
posal, it  is  not  surprising  that  Allegheny  County  has 
been  severely  criticised  for  this  dereliction. 

The  Juvenile  Court  Committee  perhaps  erred  in 
not  insisting  from  the  start  on  a  strict  compliance  with 
the  law ;  but  the  new  method  of  dealing  with  the  child 
offender  was  such  an  innovation  as  to  be  regarded  with 
doubt  by  both  bench  and  laity,  and  the  Committee  felt 
that,  to  win  its  way  to  popular  approval,  it  was  the  part 
of  wisdom  not  to  ask  for  too  much  at  the  outset.  But 
the  intended  temporary  provision  for  the  rooms  of  de- 
tention soon  established  itself  in  the  minds  of  the 
County  officers  as  a  fixed  policy,  and  repeated  efforts  • 
by  the  Juvenile  Court  Association  later  to  'have  the  de- 
tention rooms  removed  from  the  jail  failed;  such  failure 
being  reported  to  the  Civic  Club  from  time  to  time,  in 
response  to  its  urgent  inquiries  regarding  the  prospect 
of  a  change. 

Therefore  in  February,  1910,  the  Club,  deeming  that 
the  time  had  long  since  come  for  decisive  action  in  the 
matter,  arranged  for  a  meeting  between  the  County 
Commissioners  and  a  large  committee  of  its  members. 
This  meeting  resulted  in  a  thoroughly  amicable  and  satis- 
factory conference.  The  Commissioners,  having  fallen 
heir  to  the  situation,  so  to  speak,  from  their  predecessors 
in  office,  did  not  at  first  exactly  appreciate  the  desira- 
bility of  a  change.  When,  however,  their  attention  was 
directed  to  the  very  explicit  language  of  the  Act  they 
agreed  with  the  committee  that  to  detain  these  children 
within  the  walls  of  the  jail,  even  though  separate  and 
apart  from  the  adult  prisoners,  was  a  direct  violation  of 
the   law.     The   Commissioners   and   the   Committee   re- 


90  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

gretted  that  the  arrangements  to  house  the  children 
elsewhere,  which  they  decided  would  be  made  as  soon  as 
practicable,  necessitated  taking  them  from  the  very  wise 
and  gentle  supervision  of  Warden  Lewis.  The  final  out- 
come was,  after  various  plans  (of  which  the  Club  was 
kept  advised),  that  temporary  rooms  have  been  fitted  up 
in  the  old  Pittsburgh  Academy  Building,  located  on 
property  which  the  County  expects  to  use,  later  on,  for 
the  annex  to  the  Court  House.  While  these  rooms  are 
not  ideal,  they  are  incomparably  preferable  to  the  old 
arrangement  under  which  many  wholly  innocent  and 
very  young  children,  capable  of  being  set  in  the  right 
path,  were  blighted  by  the  stigma  of  'having  been  in 
jail.  It  is  hoped  that  in  the  not  far  distant  future  Alle- 
gheny County  may  have  a  model  Children's  Court  build- 
ing such,  for  example,  as  Milwaukee,  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago and  a  few  other  cities  possess. 


TREE  COMMISSION     Following  the  passage,  by  the 
1910  Pennsylvania    Legislature     in 

1907,  of  the  Act  permitting 
municipalities  to  appoint  commissioners  with  power  to 
regulate  the  planting  and  care  of  trees  in  streets  and 
highways,  which  the  Civic  Club  had  actively  endorsed, 
the  Forestry  Committee  of  the  Club  went  quietly  and 
earnestly  to  work  to  secure  an  acceptance  of  the  Act  by 
Councils.  Mayor  Magee  became  greatly  interested  and 
urged  upon  Councils  the  desirability  of  ratifying  this 
measure.  That  body  acted  favorably  in  the  fall  of  1909. 
In  the  spring  of  1910  the  Tree  Commission,  composed  of 
Mr.  Edward  M.  Bigelow,  President,  Controller  Morrow 
and  Mr.  Wm.  D.  Grimes,  was  appointed  to  serve  without 
compensation.  After  some  opposition  (which  the  Club 
did  its  best  to  help  eliminate),  an  appropriation  of  $15,- 
000  was  made  to  assist  the  Commission  in  the  care  of 
the  street  trees  as  contemplated  by  the  law. 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  91 

Mr.  James  L.  Grimes,  who  has  been  appointed  City 
Forester,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Yale  Forestry  School,  and 
is  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  work  of  his  department. 
It  is  hoped  that  he  will  have  the  co-operation  of  the  peo- 
ple of  Pittsburgh  in  order  to  enable  him  to  carry  out 
the  task  of  beautifying  the  streets  of  the  City  in  the  most 
expeditious  manner. 


"PITTSBURGH  PLAN"  That  the  city  government, 
1910  through   the    recent   disclos- 

ures of  official  corruption  in 
Pittsburg*h,  needs  some  alterations  in  its  present  system, 
is  a  problem  in  which  the  various  civic  bodies  are  deeply 
interested. 

Following  a  mass  meeting  held  in  April,  1910,  a 
"New  Charter  Committee",  composed  of  two  delegates 
each  from  seventeen  civic  and  commercial  organizations, 
was  formed.  Mr.  T.  J.  Keenan  and  Mr.  John  E.  Potter 
most  ably  represent  the  Civic  Club  in  this  non-partisan 
civic  movement. 

After  a  careful  study  of  the  most  successful  forms 
of  government  and  municipal  charters  of  other  cities 
"The  Pittsburgh  Plan"  was  adopted  by  the  general  com- 
mittee and  has  since  been  approved  by  the  organizations 
represented  for  presentation  to  the  1911  session  of  the 
Legislature. 


VICE  CRUSADE     With   the   knowledge   that  the   ex- 
1910  tent  of  the  so-called  ''Social   Evil" 

in  Pittsburgh  is  so  wide-spread, 
and  its  effects  so  grave  as  seriously  to  endanger  not  only 
the  morals  but  the  health  of  the  people,  and  because  the 
public  conscience  should  have  been,  if  it  were  not, 
aroused  by  the  revelations  made  by  Mr.  Wm.  H.  Mat- 
thews of  Kingsley  House  and  the  Academy  of  Science 


92  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

and  Art,  the  Civic  Club  pledged  its  support  and  accepted 
a  place  through  representatives  on  a  committee,  formed 
by  the  Eugenic  Section  of  the  Academy,  which  arranged 
for  a  mass  meeting  held  in  Carnegie  Hall,  April  12,  1910, 
when  the  social  evils  that  are  making  for  ill-health  and 
bad  citizenship  were  discussed,  with  a  view  to  educating 
the  people  to  the  necessity  of  taking  measures  toward 
correcting  these  conditions. 


CITY  BUDGET     In  February,  1910,  in  response  to  an 
1910  invitation  from  the  Chamber  of  Com- 

merce for  an  informal  conference  on 
the  1910  budget  of  the  City  of  Pittsburgh,  the  question 
of  a  permanent  annual  conference  of  civic  associations 
on  the  city  budget  was  discussed,  and  as  a  result  a  com- 
mittee vvas  appointed  to  draft  a  plan  for  permanent  or- 
ganization to  be  known  as  the  Budget  Conference  of  the 
City  of  Pittsburgh.  Following  the  acceptance  of  this 
committee's  report,  the  Allied  Boards  of  Trade,  upon 
request,  undertook  the  formation  of  the  budget  confer- 
ence— the  object  being  to  classify  and  prepare  for  public 
distribution  information  concerning  the  income  and  ex- 
penditures of  the  city  for  the  purpose  of  suggestion,  ad- 
vice and  information. 


FLOODS     The   Civic  Club   regards   the     work     being 
1910  done   by  the   Flood   Commission   organized 

by  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  with  the 
deepest  interest  and  looks  forward  to  the  permanent 
solution  of  the  problem  of  flood  prevention  for  Pitts- 
burgh. 

In  order  to  show  the  Board's  appreciation  of  the 
importance  of  this  matter,  the  opportunity  was  grate- 
fully accepted  to  acquaint  the  members  of  the  Civic  Club 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  93 

with  the  work  being  done,  through  an  open  meeting  held 
in  May,  1910,  w'hen  two  of  the  Commission's  experts, 
Mr.  Morris  Knowles  and  Mr.  George  H.  Maxwell,  Chair- 
man of  the  National  Irrigation  Association,  presented 
the  need  of  preventive  and  corrective  measures  for  the 
protection  of  the  city  against  the  frequent  floods  that 
cause  such  havoc  and  monetary  loss.  Many  striking 
stereopticon  views  of  flood  scenes  in  Pittsburgh  and  vi- 
cinity and  the  efifect  of  deforestation  and  reforestation, 
with  illustrations  of  great  engineering  feats  being  ac- 
complished in  other  parts  of  the  United  States, 
reiterated  the  statistics  given  by  both  speakers. 


BUILDING  CODE     In  January,  1910,  the  Pittsburgh 
1910  Chapter  of  the   American     Insti- 

tute of  architects,  which  for  sev- 
eral years  had  been  striving  to  impress  upon  the  city 
authorities  the  pressing  need  for  a  revision  of  the  build- 
ing code,  called  a  meeting  of  the  representatives  of  the 
civic  and  professional  organizations  to  form  a  committee 
that  should  prepare  a  suitable  outline  and  recommenda- 
tion to  Mayor  Magee  and  Councils  for  the  appointment 
of  a  commission  and  the  appropriation  of  an  adequate 
sum  to  pay  the  expense  of  the  clerical  work  of  a  commis- 
sion, whose  duty  would  be  to  prepare  and  recommend  a 
suitable  and  complete  building  code  for  the  City  of  Pitts- 
burgh. 

Following  this  meeting,  a  sub-committee,  on  which 
Mr.  Cornelius  D.  Scully,  one  of  the  Civic  Club  repre- 
sentatives served,  waited  upon  the  Mayor  on  January 
13th,  1910  and  received  his  promise  of  hearty  co-opera- 
tion. On  January  31st  a  resolution  was  adopted  in 
Councils  authorizing  and  empowering  Mayor  Magee  to 
appoint  a  commission  composed  of  not  more  than  seven 
representative  citizens  to  serve  without  compensation. 
This   was   signed   by   the    Mayor   the   day   after   it   was 


94  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

passed,  and  the  1910  budget  contained  the  sum  of 
$7,500.00  for  the  use  of  the  Commission.  Mr.  Edward 
Stotz,  President  of  the  Pittsburgh  Chapter  of  the  Amer- 
ican Institute  of  Architects,  who  had  been  working  on 
this  plan  for  some  time,  was  appointed  Chairman  and 
one  delegate  each  representing  respectively  the  real 
estate  interests,  the  Master  Builder's  Association,  Engi- 
neer's Society,  Bar  Association,  Master  Plumber's  Asso- 
ciation and  the  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County,  com- 
pose its  membership.  Immediately  following  the  ap- 
pointment and  the  first  meeting  held,  a  clerk  was  em- 
ployed to  make  a  compilation  of  existing  codes  in  other 
cities,  under  the  supervision  of  the  Chairman  of  the 
Commission.  This  compilation  has  practically  been 
completed,  and  so  far  the  Commission  'has  prepared  and 
has  about  ready  to  present  ordinances  covering  the  use 
of  hollow  tile  building  block  and  re-enforced  concrete  in 
building  construction,  neither  of  which  have  been  re- 
garded by  the  city  in  existing  laws.  The  result  of  the 
appointment  of  this  Commission  in  Pittsburgh  has  lead 
to  a  similiar  Commission  in  Philadelphia.  It  is  hoped 
that  the  amalgamation  of  both  forces  may  result  in  a 
statute  that  will  create  a  commission  to  cover  the  entire 
State. 


MUNICIPAL  LODGING     It  is  a  matter  of  great  re- 
HOUSE  FOR  MEN  gret  that  the  petitions  of  a 

1910  large     number     of     social, 

civic,  and  philanthropic 
organizations,  the  Civic  Club  among  them,  were  of  no 
avail  in  securing  an  appropriation  in  the  budget  of  1910 
for  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  a  Municipal 
Lodging  House  for  Homeless  Men. 


Civic  Club  op  Allegheny  County  95 

REFORMATORY  FOR      For   some    time    officials   of 
WOMEN  the  Courts  and  persons  en- 

1910  gaged    in     charitable     work 

have  felt  that  Pennsylvania 
was  deficient  in  its  means  for  reclaiming  women  who  are 
offenders  against  the  law;  that  women  from  16  to  30 
years  drift  repeatedly  through  the  Courts  and  into  prison 
and  after  brief  detention  go  out  again  as  helpless  and 
hopeless  as  they  went  in.  The  Civic  Club  of  Philadel- 
phia, which  is  responsible  for  initiating  a  campaign  for 
legislation  to  secure  a  reformatory  similar,  for  example, 
to  that  at  Bedford,  N.  Y.,  will  ask  for  an  appropriation 
for  such  an  institution  by  the  1911  session  of  the  Legis- 
lature and  will  direct  the  campaign  throughout  the  State. 
The  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County,  at  their  request, 
has  been  enlisted  among  other  associations  and  lias 
agreed  to  endorse  and  assist  in  securing  the  passage  of 
this  measure. 


BILLBOARDS     As     the     Civic     Club     endorsed     and 
1910  worked  for  the  passage  of  a  law  gov- 

erning the  erection  and  taxation  of 
billboards,  introduced  by  the  American  Civic  Associa- 
tion in  the  1907  session  of  the  Legislature,  it  goes  with- 
out saying  that,  spurred  on  by  its  failure  to  pass,  the 
Club's  attention  to  the  billboard  as  a  nuisance  and  dis- 
figurement was  firmly  rooted. 

Associations  and  individuals  who  were  powerless 
to  govern  the  inclinations  of  their  lessees  had  brought 
to  the  attention  of  the  Club  a  number  of  times  their 
absolute  helplessness  in  controlling  the  erection  of  bill- 
boards upon  their  own  and  adjoining  property,  and 
there  seemed  no  way  to  attack  the  proposition  save 
through  a  concerted  effective  organization  of  the  various 
civic  and  social  interests.  It  can  properly  be  stated  that 
while  a  comprehensive  brief  covering  the  legal  status  of 


96  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

the  billboards  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  and  City  of 
Pittsburgh  was  prepared  and  submitted  to  the  committee 
under  the  Department  of  Municipal  Art  of  the  Civic 
Club,  Mr.  John  W.  Beatty,  Chairman  in  November,  1909, 
active  steps  looking  toward  the  restriction  of  the  bill- 
board through  the  formation  of  such  an  organized  com- 
mittee were  not  taken  until  January,  1910.  A  special 
committee  of  three  (Mr.  Wm.  A.  Roberts,  Chairman; 
Mr.  Wm.  K.  Johnson,  and  Mr.  J.  D.  Hailman)  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Board  to  direct  the  policy  through  a  plan 
they  were  authorized  to  formulate. 

Understanding  just  how  far  they  could  go  through 
the  laws  and  ordinances,  or  the  lack  of  them,  the  first 
step  taken  was  by  letter  directed  to  forty-five  civic  and 
social  organizations  inquiring  the  sentiment  for  or 
against  the  billboard  in  order  to  ascertain  what  support, 
if  any,  a  movement  against  the  billboard  would  have 
from  co-working  bodies.  The  responses  were  very 
satisfactory,  illustrating  that  most  effective  results  could 
be  obtained  by  combining  and  crystalizing  the  forces  in- 
terested. 

After  numerous  conferences  and  meetings,  the  Com- 
mittee submitted  a  report  to  the  Board  of  the  Civic  Club 
with  its  conclusions  that  their  number  should  be  in- 
creased by  one  or  two  representatives  from  the  inter- 
ested organizations  of  the  City  and  by  additional  num- 
bers from  the  Civic  Club,  and  recommended: 

1st.     A  campaign  of  education. 

2nd.  That  full  data  concerning  the  billboards  in 
the  City  of  Pittsburgh  be  gathered  for  the  use  of  this 
committee,  the  information  of  the  Club  in  general,  and 
the  further  use  in  Councils  when  an  ordinance  is  pre- 
sented. 

3rd.  That  real  estate  owners  be  requested  to  co- 
operate with  the  larger  committee  in  refusing  to  permit 
the  use  of  their  property  for  billboard  advertising. 

4th.  That  the  local  theatrical  managers  and  all  the 
painters,  lithographers  and  printers  of  this  class  of  work 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  97 

be  asked  to  co-operate  with  said  committee  in  the  im- 
provement of  such  signs  and  billboards. 

5th.  That  in  conjunction  with  this  campaign  of 
education,  local  legislation  be  sought  in  line  with  a  tenta- 
tive form  of  ordinance  now  in  the  hands  of  the  commit- 
tee, which  has  in  large  part  been  drafted  after  the  ordi- 
nance for  the  regulation  of  billboards  in  other  cities, 
notably  that  of  the  City  of  St.  Louis,  which  has  been 
sustained  by  the  Appellate  Courts  of  the  State  of  Mis- 
souri. 

The  Board  approved  of  this  report  and  advised  that 
the  committee  further  outline  a  plan  of  procedure. 

Following  the  provision  that  the  Billboard  Com- 
mittee of  the  Civic  Club  shoull  be  increased  by  delegates 
from  other  civic  bodies  or  by  individuals  interested,  nine- 
teen organizations  have  affiliated  in  this  work,  and  ac- 
cording to  the  decision  made  at  the  first-  meeting,  for  the 
time  being  the  enlarged  committee  will  carry  on  the 
work  under  the  Civic  Club  and  be  known  as  the  "Bill- 
board Committee".  From  this  larger  committee,  imme- 
diately after  its  organization,  certain  standing  sub-com- 
mittees were  appointed  by  the  Chairman,  Mr.  Wm.  A. 
Roberts,  each  to  take  charge  of  a  particular  part  of  the 
work  of  the  whole  committee  through  the  following 
mediums : 

A  committee  on  statistics  with  Mr.  John  T.  Comes, 
Chairman,  to  gather  data  as  to  the  number,  size,  location, 
subject  matter,  owners,  etc.,  of  the  billboards  in  Pitts- 
burgh for  the  use  of  the  committee  at  large  and  the  in- 
formation and  education  of  the  community. 

A  publicity  committee  with  Mr.  John  L.  Porter. 
Chairman,  to  bring  to  the  attention  of  the  public  the 
work  of  this  committee  and  so  create  a  helpful  interest 
in  the  regulation  of  billboards. 

A  committee  on  advertisers  and  owners,  Mr.  John 
D.  Hailman,  Chairman,  to  present  the  matter  especially 
to  the  advertisers  and  owners  of  property  and  procure 
their  co-operation  in  the  work. 


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A  committee  on  law  and  legislation,  Mr.  Wm.  K. 
Johnson,  Chairman,  to  prepare  laws  and  ordinances  for 
the  regulation  and  taxation  of  billboards. 

A  finance  committee,  Mr.  E.  B.  Lee,  Chairman. 

It  was  further  decided  that  a  meeting  of  the  whole 
committee  be  held  at  least  once  each  month  at  which 
the  several  sub-committees  could  report  progress  and 
policies  of  the  committee  and  conduct  of  the  work  could 
be  discussed  and  decided  upon. 

The  Legislative  Committee  has  drawn  up  two  Bills 
and  a  tentative  ordinance.  The  committee  on  statistics 
has  handed  in  a  complete  report  covering  Pittsburgh 
proper  and  a  number  of  interesting  photographs  have 
been  taken.  It  is  hoped  that  this  movement  will  find 
enthusiastic  backing,  as  it  is  one  of  the  greatest  forward 
steps  toward  making  this  city  beautiful. 


IMMIGRATION     The  object  of    the     Board     of    the 
1910  Civic  Club  to  promote  the  general 

welfare  of  the  immigrant  through 
the  organization  of  an  association  to  take  up  the  ques- 
tion of  the  distribution,  protection,  education  and  as- 
similation of  the  immigrant  may  be  better  understood 
by  quoting  Miss  Kellor  who  puts  the  matter  clearly 
when  she  says,  "The  State  should  take  up,  at  the  point 
where  the  Federal  government  lays  aside  its  responsi- 
bility, the  real  question  of  immigration,  which  is  the 
problem  of  making  the  immigrant  into  a  good  citizen, 
protecting  him  when  he  is  looking  for  a  job  and  helping 
him  to  go  to  the  part  of  the  State  where  he  is  most 
needed,  where  the  best  conditions  exist,  where  there  is 
the  best  standard  of  living  and  where  he  may  find  con- 
genial associates."  Believing  that  only  through  an  asso- 
ciation organized  to  centralize  this  kind  of  work  could 
effective  service  be  given  by  the  State,  a  committee  was 


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appointed  in  October,  1910,  whose  object  should  be  the 
formation  of  adequate  plans. 

Miss  Frances  A.  Kellor,  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  In- 
dustries and  immigration  of  the  State  of  New  York  and 
Secretary  of  the  New  York  Committee  of  the  North 
American  Civic  League  for  Immigrants,  came  to  Pitts- 
burgh to  start  this  committee  in  its  work.  Miss  J.  M. 
Campbell,  Educational  Secretary  of  the  New  York  Com- 
mittee, accompanied  Miss  Kellor.  During  their  three 
days  in  Pittsburgh,  numerous  meetings  were  held  with 
the  heads  of  all  departments  of  work  in  any  way  con- 
nected with  the  foreigners,  in  order  that  they  might  bet- 
ter be  able  to  suggest  a  policy  for  the  Civic  Club  com- 
mittee. An  open  meeting  was  held  at  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  when,  in  addition  to  the  above  named,  an 
address  was  made  by  Baron  Paul  Forster,  the  Austro- 
Hungarian  Consul  of  Pittsburgh.  A  number  of  meetings 
were  held  with  the  committee  and  a  plan  was  drawn  up 
under  the  following  heads  and  adopted  as  a  basis  for  the 
work : 

1st.  A  resume  of  the  philanthropic,  charitable,  edu- 
cational, and  religious  agencies  relative  to  their  work 
with  or  for  the  foreigner. 

2nd.  Transportation :  stations  and  trains,  transfer, 
rates,  distribution  to  Pittsburgh  points. 

3rd.  Laws :  state  statutes  and  ordinances  govern- 
ing families,  domestic  relations  and  department  regula- 
tions. 

4th.  Employment  agencies:  domestic  agencies  and 
contract  labor  agencies. 

5th.     Banks,  steamship  agents. 

6th.     Notaries  public. 

7th.  Co-operation:  children  and  distributor,  trans- 
portation via  New  York  and  Pittsburgh. 

The  immigration  bureaus  in  the  few  states  that 
have  them  are  solely  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  labor 
or  developing  the  industries  of  the  state.  In  Pittsburgh 
there  are  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  the  church,  the  public  schools, 


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the  Methodist  Episcopal  Deaconesses,  the  Immigrant 
Aid  Society,  the  Settlements,  etc.,  working  on  very  im- 
portant and  special  kinds  of  w^ork,  but  the  scope  of  the 
above  committee  comprehends  them  all  and  'hopes  ulti- 
mately by  co-operation  to  blend  them  into  a  great  clear- 
ing house  that  v\nll  better  the  condition,  welfare  and  in- 
dustrial opportunities  of  the  alien.  It  needs  investiga- 
tion and  money  to  start  this  work,  and  it  will  be  a  task 
of  some  proportions.  New  York  has  been  most  fortu- 
nate in  having  these  difficulties  solved  by  the  provision 
of  funds  to  put  it  on  a  working  basis  and  the  results 
'have  more  than  warranted  the  expenditure.  The  Civic 
Clul),  unless  aided  in  some  unexpected  way,  will  have  to 
depend  on  volunteer  service,  which  precludes  the  possi- 
bility of  accomplishing  its  object  immediately,  but  it  has 
worked  long  and  hard  on  other  problems  and  is  prepared 
to  pursue  the  same  course  in  this. 


FEDERAL  LEGISLATION     The  Civic  Club  through 
1910  its  Legislative    Commit- 

tee, in  February,  1910, 
sent  letters  to  all  the  Pennsylvania  representatives  in 
Congress,  urging  them  to  bring  about  the  suppression 
of  the  transportation  of  women  for  immoral  purposes, 
by  aiding  to  secure  a  $50,000  appropriation  to  be  used 
by  the  Secretary  of  Commerce  and  Labor  for  employ- 
ment of  special  inspectors  to  bring  persons  engaged  in 
such  traffic  to  indictment  and  conviction,  and  urging 
them  to  aid  in  the  final  passage  of  bills  relating  to  this 
subject  H.  R.  Nos.  15816,  Senate  No.  4514. 

In  April,  1910,  the  Club  strongly  endorsed  the  pas- 
sage of  the  H.  R.  Bill  13915  relative  to  the  creation,  in 
the  Department  of  the  Interior,  of  a  Bureau  of  Mines. 
In  May,  1910,  it  urged  the  endorsement  by  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Representatives  and  Senators  of  Senate  Bill  6049 
establishing  a  national  Department  of  Health. 


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AFFILIATIONS  The  Civic  Club  maintains  an 
"affiliated"  membership  in  the 
American  Civic  Association,  the  National  Municipal 
League,  the  National  Child  Labor  Association,  the  Child 
Labor  Association  of  Allegheny  County,  and  the  Asso- 
ciated Charities  of  Pittsburgh. 


FINANCES  The  Civic  Club  has  every  reason  to  be- 
lieve that  it  is  not  individual  when  it 
comes  to  the  subject  of  finances.  The  amount  of  work 
done  could  never  have  been  accomplished  with  the  an- 
nual dues  at  $2.00  or  the  annual  receipts  credited  to  the 
general  fund,  which  is  used  to  defray  all  office  expenses 
including  rent,  salaries,  printing,  stationery,  telephone, 
incidentals,  postage,  etc.,  if  it  were  not  for  the  fact  that 
from  the  very  beginning  of  the  Club  each  department  or 
the  committees  under  them  have  been  obliged,  through 
a  finance  committee,  to  raise  their  own  funds.  This  fund 
is  turned  into  the  Civic  Club  treasury  and  vouchers  for 
the  disbursement  thereof  are  paid  by  the  Treasurer  of 
the  Civic  Club  upon  order  of  the  Secretary  after  approval 
by  the  various  committees. 

In  the  following  table  of  general  fund  receipts  it 
will  be  noticed  that  between  1899  and  1906  there  were 
no  donations  of  any  kind  to  the  general  fund. 

General  Fund  Receipts. 

1898 $1,450.25 

1899 1,312.59 

1900 426.00 

1901 477.00 

1902 452.00 

1903 592.00 

1904 547.00 

1905 725.00 


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1906 1,683.35 

1907 1,023.25 

1908 1,561.87 

1909 1,712.48 

1910 2,505.06 

f  Beginning  with  the  year  1906,  when  $933.50  was 
contributed  to  the  general  fund  from  a  benefit  entertain- 
ment, there  were  contributions  to  the  fund  that  fluc- 
tuated greatly  each  year. 

In  order  to  insure  the  support  necessary  for  the 
successful  continuance  of  the  work,  the  Board  in  1910 
decided  to  establish  a  guarantee  fund.  The  following 
members  of  the  Club  pledged  to  contribute  annually 
amounts  ranging  from  $5.00  to  $50.00  in  addition  to 
their  dues.  The  total  amount  of  the  guarantee  fund  in 
1910  was  $1,120.  This  amount  added  to  the  general 
fund  brought  the  receipts  for  1910  up  to  $2,505.06. 


GUARANTORS. 
A 


Allen,  Col.  Edw.  Jay     , 
Arbuckle,  Miss  Christina 


Armstrong,    Mrs.    Chas.    D. 
Ayers,  Mr.  H.  B. 


Barr,   Mr.  J.  H. 
Bell,  Mr.  Arthur  W. 
Bindley,  Mr.  John 


B 


Bissell,  Mrs.  Frank 
Blackburn,  Mrs.  W.  W. 


Cassidy,   Mrs.   Wm.   H. 
Chalfant,  Miss  Isabel 
Clark,  Mrs.  W.  E. 
Clause.  Mr.  Wm.  L. 


Clemson,   Mrs.   D.   M. 
Connell,   Mr.   Wm.  H. 
Corey,  Mr.  Wm.  E. 
Crutchfield,   Mr.   J.    S. 


Demmler,  Mrs.  A.  J. 
Denny,   Miss   Matilda 


D 


DuPuy,  Mrs.  Herbert 


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£ 


Edwards,  Miss  Katherine  M. 


Fernald.  Mr.  C.  B. 


H 


Hamburg,    Mr.    Phillip 
Hamilton,    Mrs.    William    D. 
Hanauer,  Mr.  A.  M. 
Harbison    Estate 
Heinz,  Mr.  Clarence 


Heinz,  Mr.  Howard  C. 
Heinz,  Mr.  H.  J. 
Holdship,   Mr.   C.   F. 
Houston,  Mr.  Jas.  H. 


lams,  Mrs.  Franklin  P. 


Irish,  Miss  Charlotte 


Jackson,  Miss  Mary  Louise 


Keenan,  Mr.  T.  J. 
Kennedy,  Mr.  Wm.  M. 


K 


King,    Mrs.    Alexander 


Lincoln,   Mr.   Wm.   E. 
Lockhart,  Mr.  Jas.  H. 


Lyon,  Mrs.  C.  L. 


Martin,  Dr.   Elizabeth 
Martin,   Mrs.   Sherwood   C. 
Mehard,  Hon.  S.   S. 
Mellon,  Mr.  A.  W. 
Mellon,  Mrs.  Jas.  R. 


M 


Mellon,  Mr.  Richard  B. 
Miller,   Mrs.   Reuben 
Moorhead,  Miss  Emily 
Murdock,   Mr.   Alexander 


Mc 


McClintock,  Mr.  Oliver 
McConway,   Mrs.   William 
McCreery,  Mrs.  William  H. 


McGinley,  Mrs.  John  R. 
McLean,   Mrs.   Chas.   B. 


N 


Negley,  Mr.  Henry  H. 


Oliver.  Mrs.  Jas.  B. 


Oliver,  Miss  Mildred 


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Porter,  Mr.  H.  K. 


Quigley,  Mr.  J.  E. 


Rauh.  Mrs.  Enoch 


R 


Roberts,  Mr.  W.  A. 


Schoyer,  Mr.  A.  M. 
Schleuderberg,   Mr.   Geo.   W. 
Shaw,  Mr.  Wilson  A. 
Shea,  Mr.  J.  B. 
Shepherd,  Mrs.  J.  N. 
Singer,  Mrs.  W.  H. 


Spring,  Miss  Anna  M. 
Spring  estate,  for  Elizabeth 

Spring. 
Stevenson,   Mr.   William   H. 
Stevenson,  Mrs.  William  H. 
Sweeny,   Miss   Sara 


Taylor,  Mrs.  Chas.  L. 
Taylor,  Mr.  Edward  B. 
Thaw,  Mr.  William 


Thaw,  Mrs.  William,  Jr. 
Thompson,  Mrs.  Wm.  R. 
Torrance,    Mr.    Francis   J. 


Walker,  Mrs.  John 
Wardrop,   Mrs.  Robert 
Webster,  Mr.  F.   S. 


w 


Whitman,  Mrs.  William  T. 
Woods,  Mr.  E.  A. 
Woodwell,  Mrs.  John 
Wurtz,  Mr.  Alexander  Jay 


Young,  Mr.  Samuel 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  105 

The  following  addresses  'have  been  delivered  at 
open  meetings  held  by  the  Civic  Club  from  time  to  time : 
February  25th,  1896— 

"The  Work  of  the  Philadelphia  Civic  Club", 
Miss  Mary  Channing  Wister. 

February  5th,  1897— 

"Proper  Diet  for  School  Children,"  Miss  Kath- 
arine Davis. 

April  7th,  1899— 

"Forestry,"  Miss  M.  L.  Dock,  Harrisburg. 

"Co-Operation,"  Miss  Florence  Wilkinson, 
Syracuse. 

"Charity  Organization".  Mr.  R.  D.  McGon- 
nigle,  Pittsburgh. 

February  2nd,  1900— 

"Improved  Housing  of  the  Poor."  Mr.  Jacob 
Riis,  New  York. 

November   12th,   1901— 

"The  Work  of  a  Legal  Aid  Society,  "Miss 
Rosalie  Loew,  New  York. 

March  7th,  1902— 

Prof.  Charles  Zeublin. 

January  29th,  1903— 

"The  Importance  of  a  Separate  Court  for 
Juvenile  Offenders,"  Mrs.  Alice  B.  Montgomery, 
Philadelphia. 

"Women's  Work  in  Municipal  Housekeeping," 
Mrs.  Robert  J.  Burdette,  California. 

March  25th,  1903— 

"Peak,  Pass  and  Plain,"  (Illustrated),  Mr. 
Gilbert  McClurg,  Colorado  Springs. 


106  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

November  3rd,  1904— 

"Av^^akening  America,"  Mr.  Clinton  Rodgers 
Woodruff,  Philadelphia. 

March  4th,  1905— 

"Night  Work  for  Children,"  Mr.  Owen  R. 
Lovejoy,  New  York. 

"The  Working  Child  and  the  Law,"  Mrs.  Flor- 
ence Kelley,  New  York. 

November  29th,  1905— 

"Methods  of  Beautifying  City  Streets  and 
Neighborhoods,"'   Mr.   E.   G.  Rontzahn,  Chicago. 

February  21st,  1906— 

"Municipal  Sanitation;  the  Abatement  of  the 
Smoke  Nuisance,"  Dr.  Justus  Ohage,  St.  Paul. 

February  26th,  1906— 

"With  Secretary  Taft  in  the  Philippines,"  Mr. 
Burr  Mcintosh,  New  York. 

January,  1907— 

"Disposal  of  Waste,"  Dr.  J.  F.  Edwards,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania. 

"Subway,"  Mr.  A.  O.  Fording,  Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania. 

June  20th,  1907— 

"Federation  of  Charities,"  Mr.  William  H. 
Allen,  New  York. 

November  12th,  1908— 

"Stuff  and  Service  in  the  Helping  of  the  Poor," 
Mr.  Charles  F.  Weller,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania. 


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November  12th,  1908— 

"Municipal  Control  of  Tuberculosis,"  Dr.  Wm. 
Chas.  White,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, 

November  23rd,  1909— 

"Industrial  Training  School     for     Boys,"     Mr. 
Hastings  H.  Hart,  New  York. 

November  23rd,  1910— 

"Municipal  Control  of  Shade  Trees,"  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Solotaroff,  East  Orange,  New  Jersey. 


CONSTITUTION. 

ARTICLE  I. 
The  Association   shall  be  called  the  Civic  Club  of 
Allegheny  County, 

ARTICLE  II. 

The  object  of  this  association  shall  be  to  promote 
by  education  and  organized  effort,  a  higher  public 
spirit,  and  a  better  social  order. 

ARTICLE  III. 

Section  1.  For  the  better  execution  of  its  objects 
the  Club  shall  be  divided  into  Departments,  repre- 
senting its  different  lines  of  work,  namely :  Govern- 
ment, Education,  Social  Science  and  Art. 

Department  I — Government. 

Section  2.  The  duties  of  this  Department  shall  be 
to  examine  into  the  aims  and  functions,  and  into  the 
practical  workings  of  the  governments  of  the  cities  of 


108  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny,  and  of  Allegheny  County, 
and  from  time  to  time  to  report  upon  the  same,  and 
to  suggest  measures  for  improvement,  and  to  co-oper- 
ate in  carrying  out  such  measures  in  relation  thereto 
as  may  be  approved  by  the  Board  of  Directors, 

Department  2 — Education. 

Section  3.  The  duties  of  this  Department  shall  be 
to  examine  into  the  requirements  of  Public  Education 
in  the  cities  of  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny,  and  in  Alle- 
gheny County,  and  from  time  to  time  to  report  upon 
the  same,  and  to  suggest  measures  for  improvement, 
and  to  co-operate  in  carrying  out  such  measures  in 
relation  thereto  as  may  be  approved  by  the  Board  of 
Directors. 

Department  3 — Social   Science. 

Section  4.  The  duties  of  this  Department  shall 
be  to  examine  into  the  problems  of  Household  Sani- 
tation, of  Public  Health,  of  Philanthropy,  and  of 
Social  Reform,  particularly  as  they  afifect  the  interests 
of  the  citizens  of  Pittsburgh  and  Alleg'heny,  and 
from  time  to  time  to  report  upon  the  same,  and  to 
suggest  measures  of  improvement,  and  to  co-operate 
in  carrying  out  such  measures  in  relation  thereto  as 
may  be  approved  by  the  Board  of  Directors. 

Department   4 — Art. 

Section  5.  The  duties  of  this  Department  shall 
be  to  study  and  to  encourage  the  Art  interests  of 
these  cities,  with  a  view  to  increasing  the  beauty  of 
our  parks  and  public  places,  and  to  raising  the  stand- 
ing of  public  taste  and  demand  for  Art  in  all  Depart- 
ments. 

ARTICLE   IV. 
Section    1.     The    officers    of    the    Club    shall    be    a 


Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County  109 

President,    four     Vice-Presidents,    a    Secretary    and     a 
Treasurer. 

SeCition  2.  The  President,  Vice-Presidents,  Sec- 
retary, Treasurer  and  eighteen  other  additional  directors 
shall  constitute  a  Board  of  Directors;  and  five  members 
shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business. 

Section  3.  There  shall  be  three  standing  commit- 
tees, namely:  Membership,  Finance  and  Legislation. 
The  President  shall  appoint  the  Chairmen  of  these  com- 
mittees from  the  Board  of  Directors,  and  the  President, 
in  conjunction  with  the  respective  Chairmen,  shall  ap- 
point the  remaining  members  of  these  committees. 

Section  4.  All  officers  and  directors  shall  be  elected 
by  ballot  at  the  annual  meeting.  A  plurality  of  the  votes 
shall  be  required  to  elect. 

ARTICLE  V. 

Duties  of  Officers. 

Section  1.  The  President  shall  preside  at  all  meet- 
ings of  the  Club  and  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

Section  2.  The  Vice-Presidents  shall  preside  in 
their  order  in  the  absence  of  the  President. 

Section  3.  The  Secretary  shall  keep  the  minutes  of 
each  meeting  of  the  Club,  and  shall  conduct  the  corres- 
pondence of  the  Club,  under  direction  of  the  Board,  and 
shall  perform  the  other  duties  usually  pertaining  to  such 
office,  as  the  Board  may  direct. 

Section  -i.  Tne  Chairman  of  each  Department 
shall  present  for  approval  at  the  monthly  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  a  statement  of  expenses  likely  to  be 
incurred  in  the  coming  month  by  that  Department,  and 
shall  contract  no  obligation  without  authority  for  the 
same. 


110  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County 

Section  5.  The  Treasurer  shall  be  the  custodian  of 
the  funds  of  the  Club,  which  shall  be  paid  upon  the 
order  of  the  Secretary,  after  approval  by  the  Board. 
Vouchers  for  all  disbursements  must  be  taken  and  an 
account  kept  of  all  receipts  and  expenditures.  A  monthly 
report  shall  be  made  to  the  Board,  and  also  a  full  report 
of  the  finances  of  the  Club  at  the  annual  meeting,  the 
correctness  of  which  must  be  attested  by  an  Auditing 
Committee. 

Section  6.  The  Board  of  Directors  shall  transact 
the  business  of  the  Club.  It  shall  have  power  to  fill 
vacancies  in  its  own  body  for  an  unexpired  term.  It 
shall  appoint  special  committees  as  occasion  may  require. 
One  member  of  each  of  these  committees  shall  be  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

Section  7.  The  Chairman  of  each  Department  shall 
arrange  and  attend  the  stated  meetings  of  the  Depart- 
ment. He  shall  prepare  and  provide  for  such  work  as 
may  be  under  the  charge  of  the  Department,  of  which  he 
shall  make  a  report  to  the  Board  at  its  September  meet- 
ing. At  each  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  he  shall 
report  the  work  undertaken  by  the  Department,  and,  at 
the  annual  meeting,  the  work  accomplished  during  the 
year. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

Membership. 

Section  1.  Any  respectable  citizen  of  Allegheny 
County  may  become  a  member  of  the  Club  by  having 
his  or  her  name  proposed  and  acted  upon  at  any  meet- 
ing of  the  Board  of  Directors.  Upon  election  the  Secre- 
tary shall  inform  him  or  her  of  the  fact,  and  upon  paying 
the  annual  dues  he  or  she  shall  be  accepted  as  a  member 
and  assigned  to  one  of  the  departments  of  the  Club. 

Section  2.  Any  incorporated  or  unincorporated 
Club,  Society  or  other  organization  of  kindred  purpose 


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desiring  to  aid  in  the  work  of  The  Civic  Club  may  be 
proposed  for  associate  club  membership,  and  upon  its 
election  by  the  Board  of  Directors  and  the  payment  of 
the  annual  dues  hereinafter  provided  for,  it  shall  become 
an  Associate  Club  Member  and  be  entitled  to  have  two 
voting  delegates  at  the  annual  and  special  meetings  of 
The  Civic  Club. 


ARTICLE  VII. 
Dues. 

Section  1.  Annual  Dues  of  Two  Dollars  shall 
be  required  from  each  member. 

Section  2.  Annual  dues  of  $10.00  shall  be  paid  by 
each  associate  club  member. 

Section  3.  The  annual  dues  s'hould  be  paid  before 
the  15th  of  October  in  each  year,  due  notice  of  the  same 
having  been  sent  to  each  member  by  the  Treasurer. 


ARTICLE  VIII. 
Meetings. 

Section  1.  The  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  in 
November,  the  exact  date  to  be  determined  by  the 
Board  of  Directors. 

Section  2.  A  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
shall  be  held  each  month,  for  the  transaction  of  the  gen- 
eral business  of  the  Club. 

Section  3.  Special  meetings  of  the  Club  may  be 
called  by  the  Board  of  Directors  upon  individual  notifi- 
cation. Special  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Directors  may 
be  called  by  the  President,  and  he  shall  call  such  a  meet- 
ing at  the  request  of  two  or  more  Directors.  At  all 
special  meetings  the  business  for  which  the  meeting  is 
called  shall  be  clearly  stated  in  the  notification  of  the 
meetinsf. 


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ARTICLE  IX. 

Amendments. 

Section  1.  The  Constitution  and  By-Laws  may  be 
amended  at  an  annual  or  special  meeting  of  the  Club  by 
a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  present;  the  amend- 
ments having  been  proposed  and  approved  at  a  previous 
meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  and  a  copy  thereof 
appended  to  the  call  for  the  meeting. 


ARTICLE  X. 

The  deliberations  of  all  meetings  of  the  Club  shall 
be  governed  by  Roberts'  "Rules  of  Order." 


ARTICLE  XI. 
People's  Bath  House. 

Section  1.  At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Club  there 
shall  be  elected  a  Board  of  Managers  for  the  Bathhouse, 
consisting  of  ten  members  who  shall  hold  office  for  a 
term  of  one  year.  At  least  one  member  of  this  Board 
shall  be  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Civic  Club  of  Allegheny  County. 

Section  2.  The  Managers  shall  hold  office  for  a 
term  of  one  year.  In  case  of  vacancy  the  Board  of  Di- 
rectors shall  have  power  to  fill  the  same. 

Section  3.  The  officers  of  said  Board  shall  be  a 
Chairman  and  a  Secretary  and  such  other  officers  as  the 
Board  shall  deem  necessary.  The  Board  shall  organize 
as  soon  as  possible  after  election. 

Section  4.  The  Bathhouse  Managers  shall  have 
power  to  make  all  necessary  rules  and  regulations  for 
the  management  and  control  of  any  bathhouse  which 
may  be  acquired  by  the  Civic  Club.  They  shall  report 
monthly  to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Civic     Club. 


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They  shall  have  the  power  to  engage  and  remove  all 
necessary  attendants — to  make  ordinary  repairs  and  con- 
tract for  and  purchase  supplies  for  the  running  of  bath- 
houses. 

ARTICLE  XII. 

The  Board  of  Directors  shall  have  power  to  make 
a  division  of  the  County  into  districts  and  within  each 
district  to  appoint  a  District  Chairman  and  Board  of 
Directors  with  power  to  organize  the  members  of  The 
Civic  Club  resident  within  such  district  for  the  further- 
ing of  both  the  general  work  of  the  Club  and  its  particu- 
lar work  pertaining  to  such  district. 


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CIVIC  CLUB  MEMBERS. 


Abbott,  Mr.  W.  L. 
Acheson,  Mr.  M.  W.  Jr. 
Adams,  Mr.  Luther  B. 
Adams,  Mr.  S.  Jarvis 
Adams,  Mrs.   S.  Jarvis 
Affelder,   Mr.   Louis 
Alberg,   Mrs.   G.   A.   F, 
Albree,  Mrs.  Chester 
Albree,  Mrs.  Joseph 
Alderdice,  Mrs.  Taylor 
Alexander,      Rev.      Maitland 
Allen,'  Col.   Edward  Jay 


Allen,   Mrs.   Edward   Jay 
Allen,  Mr.   Harold 
Alter,  Mr.  George  E. 
Anderson,   Mrs.   J.    Hartley 
Anderson,  Mr.  S.  H, 
Ankrom,  Miss  Anna 
Arbuckle,   Miss   Christina 
Armstrong,    Mrs.    Charles  D. 
Atwood,  Mrs.  Moses 
Aufhammer,  Mrs.  J.  Charles 
AuU,  Mrs.  W.  F. 
Ayers,  Mr.  H.  B. 


Baer,  Mr.  Morris 
Bailey,  Mr.  Reade  W. 
Bailey,  Mr.  Samuel,  Jr. 
Bair,  Mr.  Henry 
Bakewell,    Miss    Euphemia 
Balken,  Mrs.  Henry 
Banks,  Mr.  J.  E. 
Barclay,  Miss  Nannie 
Barr,  Mr.  A.  J, 
Barr,  Mrs.  A.  J. 
Barr,  Mr.  James  H. 
Bartlett,   Mr.   H.   N. 
Bassett,  Mrs.  Geo.  P.,  Jr. 
Beach,  Dr.  William  M. 
Beatty,  Dr.  H.  K. 
Beatty,  Mr.  J.  L. 
Beatty,   Mr.  John   W. 
Beatty,   Mrs.  John  W. 
Beggs,  Mr.  H.  C. 
Behr,  Mr.  Louis  C. 
Bell,  Mr.  Arthur  W. 
Bell,  Mr.  John  P. 
Bell,  Mrs.  John  P. 
Benkiser,   Mr.  William  F. 
Benner,   Miss   Margaret   C. 
Bennett,  Mr.  C.  W. 
Bennett,  Mr.  J.  C. 
Bigelow,   Mr.   E.    M. 


Billings,  Dr.  F.  T. 
Billquist,  Mr.  T.   E. 
Bindley,   Mr.   Edward   H, 
Bindley,    Mrs.    Edward   H. 
Bindley,  Mr.  John 
Bissell,   Mr.   Frank  S. 
Bissell,  Mrs.  Frank  S. 
Bixler,  Mr.  A.  G. 
Blackburn,  Mr.  W.   W. 
Blackburn,  Mrs.  W.  W. 
Blair,  Dr.  Alexander 
Blair,  Dr.  Esther  L. 
Blair,  Dr.  W.  W. 
Blake,  Mr.  William  B. 
Blake,  Mrs.  William  B. 
Blum,   Miss   Elise 
Boggs,  Mr.  R.  H. 
Bonsall,  Mr.  Ward 
Bope,  Col.  H.  P. 
Boss,  Miss  Mary  P. 
Boswell,  Mr.  A.  C. 
Boswell,   Mr.   Walter 
Botsford,  Mr.  E.  P. 
Brackenridge,  Mr.   H.  M. 
Brackenridge,   Mrs.   H.   M. 
Bradshaw,  Mr.  J.  C. 
Brashear,  Dr.  John  A. 
Breeze,  Miss  Mary  P. 


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Brown,  Mr.  Arthur  D. 
Brown,  Mr.  Charles  W. 
Brown,  Mr.  Joseph  S. 
Brown,  Mr.  Louis 
Brown,  Mrs.  Louis 
Brown,  Mrs.  Marshall 
Brown,  Mr.   Thomas  Stephen 


Buchanan,   Dr.  J.  J. 
Buhl,   Mr.   Henry,  Jr. 
Buhl,   Mrs.   Henry,  Jr. 
Burchfield,  Mrs.  A.  P. 
Burgwin,  Mrs.  A.  P. 
Burgwin,  Mrs.  John  H.  K. 
Burns,  Mr.  Allen  T. 


Caldwell,   Mrs.   John 
Callahan,  Miss  Marietta 
Cameron,  Dr.  W.  H. 
Camp,   Mr.  James   M. 
Campbell,   Mr.  Wilson  A. 
Canevin,  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop 
Carmack,  Mr.  H.  E. 
Carmalt,  Dr.  H.  G. 
Carnegie,   Mrs.   George    L. 
Carothers,   Mrs.   William   M. 
Carpenter,  Mr.  W.  J. 
Carr,  Mrs.  Paschall 
Carr,    Mr.    Wesley    G. 
Carr,  Mrs.  Wesley  G. 
Carson,    Mrs.    John    B. 
Cassidy,  Mr.  W.  H. 
Cassidy,  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Chace,  Miss  Edith 
Chalfant,   Miss   Isabel 
Chiiders,  Mr.  C.  E.  E. 
Childs,  Mr.  A.  H. 
Childs,  Mrs.  Asa  P. 
Childs,  Mr.  Harvey  L. 
Church,  Col.  Samuel  Harden 
Claney,  Mrs.  Clifford  D. 
Clarke,   Mrs.   Cyrus 
Clark,  Mrs.  W.  E. 


Clause,  Mr.  W.  L. 
Clemson,  Mrs.  D.  M. 
Coffin,   Mrs.   Ella   B. 
Cohan,  Mr.  Martin  J. 
Cohn,  Mrs.  William  H. 
Cohoe,  Dr.  Benson  H. 
Colestock,   Miss   Sidney 
Columbian     Council     Jewish 

Women. 
Collins,  Mr.  Henry  L. 
Collins,  Mrs.  Henry  L. 
Comes,  Mr.  John  T. 
Connell,  Mr.  William  H. 
Corey,  Mr.  William  E. 
Covert,  Mrs.  J.  J. 
Craig,  Mr.  F.  E. 
Craig,  Miss  Jean 
Graver,  Mr.  Harrison  W. 
Graver,  Mrs.  Harrison  W. 
Crawford,  Mr.  Charles  S. 
Crawford,  Mrs.  Charles   S. 
Crocker,   Mr.   E.   E. 
Crocker,  Mrs.  E.  E. 
Crocker,   Mr.   Henry  Irving 
Crone,  Mr.  D.  A. 
Crutchfield,  Mr.  J.  S. 
Curll,  Dr.  G.  L. 


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Dangerfield,  Jr.,  Mr.  Ben. 
Davis,  Mr.  Henry  A. 
Davis,  Mr.  H.  P. 
Davis,  Mr.  W.  L. 
Davis,  Mr.  W.  L. 
Davison,  Mr.  N.  C. 


Denny,  Mrs.  Harmar  D. 
Denny,  Miss  Matilda 
Demmler,  Mr.  A.  J. 
DeOvies,  Senora   Blanca 
Dermitt,  Miss  H.  M. 
Dewhurst.  Mrs.  A.  M. 


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Dick,  Mrs.  J.  C. 
Dickson,  Mrs.  Thomas 
Dilworth,  Mrs.  George  W, 
Dohrman,  Mr.  Frank 
Dohrman,   Miss   Rachel 
Doty,  Miss  Helen  C. 
Douglas,   Mr.   William 
Dranga,   Dr.   Amelia 
Dravo,  Mr.  E.  T. 


Dravo,  Mrs.  Horace 
Duff,  Mr.  J.  Boyd 
Duff,  Mrs.  Levi  Bird 
Duff,  Mr.  R.  P. 
Dunham,   Major   David   E. 
DuPuy,   Miss  Eleanor 
DuPuy,  Mr.  Herbert 
DuPuy,   Mrs.   Herbert 
Dysart,  Prof.  P.  M. 


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Earl,  Mrs.  Edwin 
Eaton,  Miss  Jeanette  M. 
Eaton,  Mr.  John 
Eaton,  Mrs.  John 
Eaton,  Dr.  Percival  J. 
Eaton,   Mrs.   Percival  J. 
Edsall,  Mr.  Charles  A. 
Edwards,  Mrs.  George  D . 
Edwards,  Dr.  Harold  R. 
Edwards,   Mrs.    Harold   R. 
Edwards,  Dr.  J.  F. 
Edwards,  Miss  Katherine  M. 


Eichleay,   Miss   Katherine 
Elliot,   Mr.    J.    W. 
Ellis,  Miss  Sara  Frazier 
Elterich,  Dr.  Theo.  J. 
Ely,  Mrs.   Sumner  B. 
English,  Mr.  H.  D.  W. 
English,  Mrs.  H.  D.  W. 
Estrada,  Mrs.  Esteban  D. 
Esquerre,  Prof.   Edmund 
Everest,  Mr.  W.   B. 
Ewing,  Dr.  W.  B. 


Falconer,   Mr.   William 
Felix,  Mr.  Otto  F. 
Fenollosa,   Dr.   Sidney  K. 
Field,  Mr.  William  P. 
Finkelpearl,  Mrs.  Henry 
Fisher,  Mr.  H.  W. 
Flaccus,  Mrs.  George 
Fletcher,  Mr.  J.  Gilmore 
Fleishman,  Mrs.  S.    L. 


Fleming,   Mrs.   Andrew 
Fording,  Mrs.  Arthur   O. 
Foster,  Dr.  W.  S. 
Foster,  Mrs.  W.  S. 
Francis,  Mr.  James  L. 
Francis,  Mrs.  James  L. 
Frew,  Miss  Margaret  A. 
Frew,  Mr.  William 


Garland,  Mrs.  John  W. 
Garland,   Mr.   Robert 
Gerwig,    Mrs.    Charles    W. 
Gleim,   Miss   Mary  A. 
Goehring,  Mr.  John  M. 
Goldsmith,    Dr.    Luba    Robin 
Gorman,  Miss  Letitia 
Gormley,  Mrs.  E.  W. 
Graff.  Mr.  R.   M. 


Grange,  Rev.  Robert  W. 
Graver,  Mrs.  E. 
Gray,  Miss   Mary 
Grayson,   Dr.   Thomas   W. 
Gribble,   Mrs.   M.   B.   K. 
Grimes,  Miss  Helen 
Grimes,  Mr.  William  D. 


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Hailman,  Mr.  J.  D. 
Hall,  Dr.   Henry  M. 
Hall,  Miss  Margaret  G. 
Hall,  Mr.  Robert  C. 
Hall,  Mrs.  Robert  C. 
Hallock,   Mrs.   William  E. 
Hamburger,    Mr.   Phillip 
Hamerschlag,    Mrs.      Arthur 
Hamilton,  Mrs.  A.  R. 
Hamilton,  Mrs.  William  D. 
Hammond,  Mrs.  James  H. 
Hanauer,  Mr.  A.  M. 
Harbison,  Mr.  Ralph  W. 
Harbison,  Mrs.  Ralph   W. 
Harbison,    Mr.   William   A. 
Harper,    Mrs.   Ignatia 
Hartman,  Mrs.  Galen  C. 
Hawkins,  Mr.  Richard 
Haworth,   Mrs.  Jehu 
Hay,  Mr.  J.  Walter 
Head,  Mr.  R.  M. 
Heard,  Dr.  James  D. 
Heard,  Mrs.  James  D. 
Heasley,  Mrs.  P.  O. 
Heckel,  Dr.  E.  B. 
Heeren,   Mr.   William 
Hegemen,   Miss  Annie   M. 


Heinz,  Mr.  Clarence 
Heinz,  Mr.  Howard  C. 
Heinz,    Mr.    H.    J. 
Henrici,   Mr.  Arthur 
Henrici,   Mr.   Jacob 
Herr,  Mr.  E.  M. 
Hershman,  Mr.  Oliver  S. 
Herriot,  Miss  Emma  J. 
Herron,  Mr.  John  W. 
Herron,  Mrs.  John  W. 
Herron,  Mr.  W.  A. 
Hilliard,  Mr.  W.  H.  R. 
Hilliard,  Mrs.  W.  H.  R. 
Hirsch,  Mr.  Isaac  E. 
Hirsch,   Dr.   Leon 
Hoffman,   Mrs.   Julius 
Hogg,  Mrs.  Frank  J. 
Holdship,  Mr.  C.  F. 
Holmes,   Mrs.   John   G. 
Home,   Mrs.  Albert 
Home,   Mrs.    Durbin 
Houston,    Mr.   Chas.   W. 
Houston,   Mrs.   Chas.   W. 
Houston,  Mr.  James  W. 
Huselton,  Mrs.  W.   S. 
Hussey,    Mr.    C.    C. 


lams,  Mrs.   F.  P. 
lams.  Dr.  J.  Donald 
lams,  Mr.  J.  Dorsey 
Ingram,  Dr.  W.  H. 


Irish,  Miss   Charlotte 

Irish,  Mrs.    Dallas 

Irish,  Mr.    F.    C. 

Irish,  Mr.  Howard 


Jackson,  Miss  Mary  Louise 
Jamison,  Miss  Margaret 
Jamison,  Miss  Martha 
Janssen,  Mr.  B. 
Jennings,    Mr.    E.    H. 
Jennings,   Mrs.   E.   H. 


Johns,  Miss   L.   E. 
Johnson,  Mr.  George  E. 
Johnson,  Mr.  William  K. 
Johnston,   Dr.   George   C. 
Johnston,  Dr.  James  I. 


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Kay,  Mr.  Frederick  G. 
Kay,  Mrs.  Frederick  G. 
Kay,  Mr.  James  I. 
Kay,  Mrs.  James  I. 
Kebler,   Mr.   Eliot  A. 
Keenan,  Miss  Sophia 
Keenan,  Mr.  T.  J. 
Kellogg,   Dr.   Frederick   S. 
Kelly,  Mr.  A.  J.,  Jr. 
Kelly,  Mrs.   A.  J.,  Jr. 
Kelly,  Miss  Martha  E. 
Kelso,  Mrs.  James  A. 
Kennedy,    Miss    Charlotte 
Kennedy,   Mr.  Julian 
Kennedy,   Mrs.  Julian 


Kennedy,  Mr.  William  M. 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  William  M. 
Kerr,  Miss  Jane 
Keys,  Mr.  John  A, 
Kibler,  Mrs.  J.  R. 
Kiehnel,  Mr.  Richard 
King,  Mrs.  Alexander 
Kirtland,  Mr.  A.  P. 
Klee,  Mr.  W.  B. 
Kleibacker,  Mr.  Fred  R. 
Kleibacker,   Mrs.   Fred.   R. 
Koeller,  Dr.  F.  S. 
Koenig,  Dr.  Adolph 
Kuhn,  Mr.  James  S. 
Kunz,  Mrs.  William  R. 


Lacock,  Mrs.  J.  Stewart 
Lamme,   Mr.   Benjamin 
Lauder,    Mrs.    George 
Lang,  Miss  Mary  P. 
Lange,  Dr.  J.  C. 
Langfitt,    Mr.    Joseph 
Latshaw,  Mrs.  Wm.  H. 
Latus,  Mr.   C.  C. 
Laughlin,  Mrs.  Henry 
Leatherman,   Miss   Marian 
Leatherman,  Mr.  W.  H. 
Leatherman,  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Leeds,  Mr.  Chas.  C. 
Lehman,  Mr.  George  Mustin 
LeMoyne,  Mr.  F.  J. 
Levin,  Mr.  Leonard  S. 
Lewis,   Mr.  J.   L, 
Lewis,  Mrs.  J.  L. 
Lincoln,  Mr.  William  E. 
Lindeman,  Dr.  C.  E. 


Lindsay,   Dr.  H.   D. 
Lindsay,  Mr.  Wm.  T. 
Litchfield,    Dr.    Lawrence 
Little,  Rev.  R.  M. 
Lloyd,   Mr.   S.  H. 
Lloyd,   Mrs.    S.  H. 
Lockhart,    Mr.    James    H. 
Lockhart,   Mrs.  James   H. 
Logan,  Col.  Albert  J. 
Lohstoeter,    Mr.    Frederick 
Longmore,   Mrs.   A. 
Longwell,    Mrs.    Henry 
Lovejoy,  Mr.  F.  T.  F. 
Lovejoy,  Mrs.  F.  T.  F. 
Lydick,  Mr.  Harry  S. 
Lyon,  Mr.  Chas.  L. 
Lyon,  Mrs.  Chas.  L. 
Lyon,  Mr.  J.  Denniston 
Lyon,  Mr.  W.  T. 


Macrum,  Mr.  William 
Macrum,  Mrs.  William 
Mangold,   Mr.    Oscar   G. 
Maple,   Miss   Susan 
Maroney,  Mr.  D.  F. 


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Martin,   Mrs.   D.   C. 
Martin,   Dr.   Elizabeth   L. 
Martin,  Mrs.  Rufus 
Martin,   Mrs.   Sherwood   C. 
Mason,  Mr.  H.  D. 


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Matheny,  Dr.  A,  R. 
Mattern,   Mr.   E.   L. 
Mattern,   Mrs.   E.   L. 
Matthews,    Mrs .    Vitallius 
Matthews,  Mr.   William  H. 
Mazer,  Mr.   Marcus 
Mehard,  Hon.   S.  S. 
Mellon,  Mr.  A.  W. 
Mellon,    Mr.    James   R. 
Mellon,    Mrs.   James   R. 
Mellon,  Mr.   R.   B. 
Mellon,   Mr.  Thos.  Jr. 
Mellor,  Mrs.  C.  C. 
Mellor,   Mr.   Walter  C. 
Metcalf,  Mrs.  Orlando 


Miller,  Dr.  Harold 
Miller,  Mrs.  Horace  J. 
Miller,  Mrs.  Reuben 
Miller,   Mrs.   Sophia  F. 
Miller,  Mrs.  W.  S. 
Moffitt,  Miss  Clarissa 
Molamphy,   Mrs.  J.   M. 
Moore,  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Moorhead,  Miss  Emilie 
Moreland,  Mrs.  W.  C. 
Morris,  Miss   Sarah 
Moyar,  Dr.  C.  C. 
Moyer,  Dr.  I.  J. 
Murdoch,   Mr.   Alexander 
Murtland,  Mrs.  John  A. 


Mc 


MacClure,   Mr.   C.   A. 
Macgahan,    Mr.    Paul 
MacLachan,   Dr.  A.  A. 
McAfee,  Mr.  Robert 
McAloney,  Mr.  Thos.   S. 
McCague,   Mr.   R.   S. 
McCall,   Miss   Mary   E. 
McCallam,   Mr.   A.   C. 
McCallam,    Mrs.   A.   C. 
McClay,  Mr.   Samuel 
McClelland,   Dr.   J.    H. 
McClintock,    Mr.    Oliver 
McClung,  Miss  Isabelle 
McClurkin,   Rev.  J.   K. 
McConnell,   Miss   Anna  B. 
McConnell,   Miss   Lide 
McConway,   Mr.   Wm. 
McConway,    Mrs.    Wm. 
McCormick,  Mr.  J.  C,  Jr. 
McCormick,  Mrs.  John    S. 
McCormick,   Chancellor   S.  B. 
McCormick,  Miss  Sophia 
McCready,   Dr.   E.   B. 
McCreery,   Miss   Emilie 
McCreight,   Dr.  W.   S. 


McCurdy,  Dr.  John  R. 
McCutcheon,   Mrs.   J.   L. 
McCutcheon,   Mrs.  W.  A. 
McDowell,   Mr.  J.  C. 
McDowell,  Mrs.  J.   C. 
McGiffin,  Mr.   Malcolm 
McGill,  Mr.  John 
McGinley,  Mr.  John  R. 
McGinley,   Mrs.   John   R. 
Mcllvaine,    Mr.   George    D. 
Mcllvaine,  Rev.  J.  H. 
Mcllvaine,  Mrs.  J.  H. 
McKaig,   Mrs.   Caroline 
McKavney,   Mr.   John   R. 
McKee,  Mr.  Logan 
McKnight,    Mr.    Chas. 
McKnight,   Mr.  T.   H.   B. 
McKnight,   Mr.   Samuel 
McKnight,  Mrs.   W.   T. 
McLean,  Mrs.  Chas.  B. 
McLean,    Mrs.    Chas.    Voight 
McMillan,  Miss  Belle  S. 
McNair,   Mr.   William 
McVay,   Mr.  Chas.  C. 


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Neeley,  Mr.  Harry  W. 
Neeley,   Mrs.   Harry  W. 
Neeper,   Miss   Marian 
Neff,   Dr.   E.   L. 
Negley,  Mr.  Henry  H. 
Nettelton,    Dr.    D.    P. 


Neumont,  Miss   Kate 
Newcomer,  Major  H.  C. 
Newmeyer,   Mrs.   J.   C. 
Nicholson,   Mrs.  John 
Niebaum,  Mr.  John  H. 


O'Brien,  Mrs.  G.  G. 
O'Connor,  Mrs.  P.  J. 
Ohl,  Mrs.  J.  Arthur 
Ohlman,  Dr.  I.   L. 
Oliver,   Mr.   Augustus   K. 
Oliver,   Mrs.   David   B. 


Oliver,   Mrs.  Jas.   B. 
Oliver,    Miss    Mildred 
O'Neil,   Mr.    Edward 
Osborne,  Mr.  L.  A. 
Osborne,  Mrs.  L.  A. 


Packer,  Mr.   Gibson 
Painter,  Mr.  Chas.  A. 
Panarello,   Mr.  Autonino 
Park,  Mr.  D.  E. 
Park,    Mr.   James   H. 
Park,    Mrs.    James    H. 
Parker,   Miss   Alice   N. 
Patterson,  Dr.  Ellen  J. 
Patterson,  Miss  Hannah 
Patterson.   Mr.   Robert  W. 
Patterson,   Mrs.   Robert  W. 
Patton,  Mr.  F.  B. 
Peacock,  Mrs.  Alexander 


Penny,  Major  J.  P. 
Perkins,  Mr.  F.  C. 
Perley,  Mrs.  J.  A. 
Pettit,  Dr.  Albert 
Pettit,   Mrs.   Albert 
Phillips,  Mr.  John  M. 
Pickering,   Mrs.   S.  A. 
Pitt,  Miss  M.  Emmilinne 
Porter,  Hon.  H.  K. 
Porter,   Mrs.   H.   K. 
Potter,  Mr.  John  E. 
Price,  Mr.  Chas.  B. 


Quay,    Mrs.   Richard   R. 
Quigley,  Mr.  J.  Edward 


Quinn,  Miss  Mary  .A. 


Ramsey,  Dr.  Anna  B. 
Rauh,  Mrs.   Enoch 
Reed,  Mr.  R.  R. 
Rhodes,   Dr.   Fred.   A. 
Ricketson,  Miss  Sarah  G. 
Rieck,  Mrs.  E.  E. 
Robbins,  Mr.   F.  L. 
Robbins,  Mrs.  F.  L. 
Roberts,  Mr.  Geo.  L. 


Roberts,  Miss  Jennie  L. 
Roberts,  Mr.  W.  A. 
Robinson,   Mr.   W.   H. 
Rodgers,  Mrs.  W.  B. 
Rodgers,   Mrs.   W.   L. 
Ross,    Mrs.   Mansfield 
Rowe,   Mr.  Wallace  H. 
Russell,   Mr.   Fred   A. 
Russell,  Dr.  J.  M. 


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Samson,  Mr.  Harry 
Sanes,  Dr.  K.  I. 
Sawyer,  Miss  Eleanor 
Sawyer,  Miss  Mary  H. 
Scaife,  Mr.  W.  L. 
Schatzman,  Dr.  E.  P. 
Schleuderberg,   Mr.   Geo.   W. 
Schoyer,  Mr.  A.  M. 
Schoyer,  Mrs.  L.  D. 
Schoyer,  Mr.  Wm.   E. 
Schreuder,  Mrs.  J.  G. 
Schuette,   Mr.   Wm.   H. 
Scott,  Mr.  Chas.  F. 
Scott,  Mrs.  Chas.  F. 
Scott,  Mrs.  William 
Scandrett,  Mr.  R.  B. 
Scandrett,  Mrs.  R.  B. 
Scully,  Mr.  Cornelius  D. 
Scully,  Mrs.  Cornelius  D. 
Scully,  Mr.  Henry  B. 
Scully,  Mrs.  Henry  R. 
Seip,  Mrs.  C.  P. 
Seip,  Miss 
Semple,   Miss   Mary 
Seymour,   Mrs.   S.  L. 
Shaffer,    Mrs.    Annie    McKee 
Shaw,    Mr.    Geo.    E. 
Shaw,    Mrs.   Geo.    E. 
Shaw,   Mr.  Wilson   A. 
Shea,  Mr.  J.  B. 
Sherrard,  Prof.  R.  M. 
Shrom,   Dr.   Laura  G. 
Shute,   Mr.   H.   D. 
Sill,    Herbert   F. 
Singrer,   Mrs.  W.  H. 
Siviter,  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Skelding,  Mr.  F.  H. 
Skelding,   Mrs.   F.   H. 
Slocum,  Mrs.  Frank 
Smith,  Mrs.  Anna  E. 
Smith,  Mr.  Arthur  H. 
Smith,  Mrs.  Arthur  H. 


Smith,  Mrs.  A.  W. 

Smith,  Mr.  E.  Z. 

Smith,  Mr.  Lee  S. 

Smith,  Mrs.  Norman 

Smith,  Mr.  R.  E. 

Smith,  Dr.  Stanley 

Smith,  Mrs.  W.  W. 

Spiro,  Dr.  M. 

Speer,  Mr.  John  Z. 

Spencer,  Mrs.  Chas.  H. 

Spring,   Miss  Anna  M. 

Sprowls,  Mr.  T.  W. 

Stahlman,   Dr.   T.   M. 

Starr,  Mrs.  A.  B. 

Steel,  Mrs.  John  F. 

Steinmeyer,  Mr.  W. 

Stephenson,  Mrs.  J.  F. 

Sterrett,   Dr.   J.   K. 

Stevenson,    Miss    Eleanor   J. 

Stevenson,   Mrs.   Wm.   H. 
Stewart,  Mr.  D.  G. 
Stewart,   Mrs.   D.   G. 
Stewart,  Mr.  Hamilton 
Stieren,    Dr.    Edward 

Stimmel,  Mr.  B.  C. 
Stoebner,  Mr.  Geo.  H. 
Stone,  Mrs.  Wm.  A. 
Storer,   Mr.    N.   W. 
Stotz,    Mr.    Edward 
St.  Peter,  Miss  Helen 
Stucky,   Mrs.   Pauline   L. 
Sturtevant,  Mr.  Paul 
Sturtevant,  Mrs.  Paul 
Sullivan,  Mrs.  Edwin  R. 
Sullivan,  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Sunstein,   Mr.   A.   J. 
Sunstein,    Mrs.   A.   J. 
Suydam,   Miss   Emma 
Swan,  Miss  Grace 
Sweeney,   Mrs.   Gilliford 
Sweeney,  Miss  Sara 
Swensson,   Mr.   Emil 


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Taylor,  Mr.   Alexander 
Taylor,  Mrs.  Chas.  L. 
Taylor,  Mr,   Daniel 
Taylor,  Mrs.  Daniel 
Taylor,   Mr.   Ed.   B. 
Thaw,   Mrs.   Copley 
Thaw,  Mr.  Wm. 
Thaw,  Mrs.  Wm.  Jr. 
Thomson,   Mrs.    Phillip 
Thompson,  Mr.   Edward 


Thompson,   Mr.   Wm.   D. 
Thompson,  Mrs.  W.  R, 
Thurston,   Miss   Alice 
Tipper,   Mrs.  W.  J. 
Topp,   Mr.   O.   M. 
Torrence,  Mr.  Francis  J. 
Torrence.  Mrs.  Francis  J. 
Trinks,  Prof.  Willibald 
Trump,  Miss  Isabel 
Turner,   Mrs.   J.   J. 


Ulp,  Mrs.  R.  M. 


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Vaill,   Mr.  Edward  B. 
Van  Dyke,  Mrs.  W.   S. 
Van  Wagonen,  Mrs. 

Wade,   Mr.  Angus 
Wade,  Mrs.  Florence 
Walker,   Mrs.   John 
Walker,   Dr.  W.   K. 
Wallace,  Mrs.   Augusta 
Wallace,  Mrs.  John  C. 
Wallace,  Mrs.  Wm.  T. 
Wardrop,   Mrs.    Robert 
Warmcastle,    Mrs.    Grace 
Wasson,  Mrs.  Henry  G. 
Wattles,  Mr.   Chas.  W. 
Wattles,  Mr.  W.  W. 
Wattles,  Mrs.  W.  W. 
Webster,  Mr.  Fred.  S. 
Webster,  Mrs.   Fred   S. 
Weil,  Mr.  A.  Leo. 
Weil,  Mrs.  A.  Leo. 
Weil,  Mr.  J. 
Weisser,  Dr.  Ed.  A. 
Wells,   Miss   Alice 
Weller,  Mr.  Chas.  F. 
Welles,  Miss  Jessie 
Westervelt,  Dr.  H.  C. 
Wendt,  Mr.  John  S. 
Whitehead,   Miss   M. 


W 


Veeder,   Dr.   Andrew 
Vermorcken.    Mrs.    E. 
Voltz,  Miss  Elizabeth 

Whitman,  Miss  Helen 
Whitman,  Mr.   Paul 
Whitman,  Mrs.  Wm.  T. 
Wholey,  Dr.  C.  C. 
Wible,  Dr.  E.  E. 
Wilcox,  Mrs.  Frank 
Willetts,  Mr.  E.  A. 
Williamson,  Dr.  J.  H. 
Willson,   Mr.   Frank  E. 
Wilson,  Mrs.  Columbus 
Wilson,  Mrs.  George  H. 
Winner,  Mr.   H.   E. 
Wise,  Mr.  Wm.  F. 
Wishart,  Mr.  W.  W. 
Wood,  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Woods,  Mr.   E.  A. 
Woods,  Mrs.  E.  A. 
Woods,    Mr.    Lawrence 
Woodwell,   Mrs.   John 
Woodwell,  Mrs.  Wm.  E. 
Wright,  Mrs.  H.  T. 
Wright,  Miss  H.  W. 
Wurtz,  Mr.  Alexander 
Wurtz,    Mrs.   Alexander 


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Young,  Mr,  Samuel 

Z 

Zahn,  Mrs.  William  A.  Zeller,  Mrs.  August 

Zeller,  Mr.  August 


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INDEX 

Page 

Affiliations    101 

Allegheny  County  Industrial  &  Training  School  for  Boys.  . .  .79 

Allegheny   County   Child  Labor  Association 71 

Arbor  Day 27 

Arsenal  Park   37 

Art  Exhibit  in  Public  Schools 26 

Associated  Charities   22 

Billboards    95 

Block  House   50 

Building  Code 93 

Camp   School    83 

Child  Labor  68-69 

Children's  Leagues  of  Good  Citizenship 21 

Cigarettes  to  Minors   35 

City-Budget    92 

City  Charter 38 

Civic  Exhibit    82 

Committee  on  Tuberculosis    61 

Conservation   83 

Constitution  and  By  Laws 107 

Conventions 72 

Court  House  Alterations    60 

Department   of   Art 12 

Department  of  Government   11 

Down  Town  Libraries   72 

Educational  Department   11 

Evening  Industrial   Schools   1898 28 

Educational  Work  Among  Foreigners 84 

Expectoration    16 

Federal  Legislation — 1907    76 

Federal  Legislation — 1909   88 

Federal  Legislation.  .1910    100 

Finances    101 

Floods    92 

Forestry 59 

Free  Bridges    83 

Garbage   13 

Greater   Pittsburgh    75 

Grouping  of  Public  Buildings 73 

Guarantors   102 

Home  for  Truant  Children    77 

Immigration   Committee    98 

Increased  Gas  Rates 75 

Juvenile   Court    39 

Lectures  from  1896  to  1910 

Lectures  in  Public  Schools — 1902 51 


INDEX 

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Page 

Lectures   in   Public   Schools— 1903 51 

Lecture  Course— 1909    87 

Legal    Aid    33 

Medical  Inspection    62 

Membership    114 

Miscellaneous    Activities — 1896 19 

Miscellaneous  Activities — 1898 28 

Miss  McKnight's  Death 76 

Model  Tenements 36 

Municipal  Hospital   18 

Municipal  Lodging  House  for  Men 94 

Officers  and  Directors   5 

Open- Air  Schools 85 

Open  Meetings  87 

Organization  7 

Peoples  Bath 19 

Peoples  Gardens 18 

Permanent  Civic  Committee 42 

Pittsburgh  Plan 91 

Playgrounds    , 14 

Presidents   9 

Pure  Milk   82 

Pure  Water    12 

Railroad  Ordinances    50 

Reformatory  for  Women 95 

Removal  of  Penitentiary   82 

Rooms  of  detention  88 

Salute  to  the  flag 21 

School  Inspection 36 

Scholarships   69 

Secretaries    10 

Smoke    33 

Social  Science  Department 12 

Soho  Public  Baths   42 

State  Legislation— 1905 23 

State  Legislation— 1907  . 75 

State  Legislation— 1909  87 

Subway    73 

Teachers  &  Parents  Association 38 

Tenement  House  Reform   52 

Traveling  Libraries   59 

The  Survey   74 

Trains  on  Liberty  Street 60 

Treasurer   10 


INDEX 

(Continued) 

Page 

Tree  Commission 90 

Vice  Crusade   91 

Young  Men's  Civic  Club  of  Allegheny 31 

Youngs  Men's  Civic  Club  of  Lawrenceville 29 


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